> Canada has a 0 tolerance for such drugs.  What is the
> tolerance in the US?
> I understand that they do tolerate higher than 0.

Every country has a tolerance "higher than 0", even if
they want to claim that they have "zero tolerance".
The term "zero tolerance" is an emotional one.
"Zero" never was, and may never actually be zero
when it comes to testing for contamination, moreso
when it is impossible to test each and every barrel
of honey.

> I'm hoping that all this honey that is
> currently in Canada will not end up in the US.

Some perspective appears to be required.
Perhaps a few questions would help:

1) Which statement made in the past few day on Bee-L is more scary?

 a) "Honey... may be contaminated with nitrofurans."
    ("Canadian Food Inspection..." Mon, 5 Apr 2004)

 b) "The Section 18 emergency exemption for CheckMite+ has been renewed."
    ("Section 18 emergency exemption...", Thu, 1 Apr 2004)

2) Given a choice between trace-level Nitrofurans contamination or
   trace-level Coumaphos contamination in honey, which would you eat?

3) Which are you more likely to find in US and/or Canadian honey?

4) Which one is known to have acute negative impact due to
   cumulative trace-level exposure over time?

5) Who would have ever suspected that beekeepers would need to
   brush up on their microbiology?


                jim

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