I've got to side with Peter on this one - Having had contact with the 
bee industry (mostly from the outside) for a looong time, I usually 
found that beekeepers, both alone and in groups, were all too eager to 
get and try new ideas, including whatever chemical they thought or heard 
could help their colonies.

The general opinion where I used to work was "If anybody ever runs 
systematic analyses of honey (USA or worldwide), the beekeepers are in 
big trouble".
  - John

Lloyd Spear wrote:

> In response to someone suggesting that Oxalic Acid should not be 'put 
> in the
> same basket' as hard chemicals, Peter said "This kind of cavalier 
> attitude
> is what spurred civilized countries to
> enact pure food and drug laws. Maybe you should put on your honey
> label: "Bees treated with whatever I could buy cheap down at the feed
> store; Consume at your own risk."
>
> Peter is a great guy and his thoughts and insights have been very 
> helpful to
> those on this list, including me.  But he is dead wrong on this one.

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