Aaron Morris wrote:

>
> Well geez Aaron, you're being pretty hard assed on this one.  How can you
> assure that honey in your bee equipment never ends up in your extracting
> equipment.  Truth is, I can't.  Makes you think twice about the chemican
> treadmill, doesn't it.
>
>  Hi Aaron and All,

 Chemicals are like fly paper, you can pass it from hand to hand , but very
hard to get rid f it.
 Best advice: don't take the trip , it may be a swamp you don't want to enter.
 Here, in Washington state, we have a problem with compost. Herbicides that are
persistent.
 The clopyralid problem has 25,000 tons of compost siting in Spokane Wa.
unable to go to market. It turns out that the level that it will hurt peas,
beans, tomatoes sunflowers, ect. is 1 PPB. According to Dows literature , this
is roughly 100 times lower than the tolerance on asparagus, 50,000 times lower
than grasses. So the long term affects was not looked at during registration of
the product.WSU has been doing a lot of research and found that the hay that
was fed to cattle had the clopyapralid in it and was past through the urine and
manure. Its in grass clippings also. This is a real problem and will hurt
gardeners that think the bag they just bought will be good organic compost for
there tomatoes. We do not have to look far to see what the real lack of
knowledge in chemicals can do to us.Contaminated honey , is just that and
should not be used for anything. I would not feed it to my bees.
Best Regards
Roy Nettlebeck
Tahuya River Apiaries

http;//css.wsu.edu/compost/compost.htm