Ed said:
In years past I have made lip balm as well as hand cream using beeswax from
my colonies, however the use of Cumaphos put an abrupt halt to making these
items.

Others may not agree but I do not believe you would have a problem with
fresh cappings wax.

For sure with brood comb wax if coumaphos has been used.

If I remember correctly ( information from the bee lab) with one application
of Checkmite you  get up to 50 PPM and two applications up to 75PPM. If per
label use has been done 75PPM seems to be the high point even after several
years.

If the use of  coumaphos dip illegally has been used it can push coumaphos
levels to many hundreds of parts per million rendering the comb useless for
beekeeping.

Does anyone know of a reasonably priced OTC test for Cumaphos in wax.

No!

Bob

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