When I get old equipment, I always torch.
I've never had a case of AFB (my fingers are still crossed)
in 38 years.
The standard treatment for AFB in Maryland was burning the
boxes and burning--as elsewhere--
until the state inspector got an ETO chamber and used it
for years, until ethyleneoxide was found 2 B carcinogenic
and disbarred by EPA?
I think he's in the process of getting the use of ETO reinstated for
bee use.
 
**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
   Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
**"Forsooth there is some good in things evil
   For bees extract sweetness from the weed" -- Bard of Avon
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