In message <[log in to unmask]>, Peter Borst
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>         There is a big problem with some of the treatments mentioned on
>this list: they're illegal.

Legal/illegal varies from Country to Country; I believe this is an
International list, so subscribers, please treat scattergun comments on
'legality' with care.

In the UK the question of what is legal and what is illegal is very hard
to determine.  There are some very specific Regulations that outlaw
everything but Licensed medicines.  However  the Government Agency that
drew up these Regulations has subsequently given advice that other
substances - 'non-medicinal curative substances'- can be used in the
hive provided that if they are transmitted to animal product they would
not be harmful to human health.  Sadly there is no definitive list of
these substances, so it is very much a case of 'user beware'.

In European Regulations defining maximum residue limits of veterinary
medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin, menthol and thymol
are not subject to maximum residue limits, and camphor, eucalyptol and
formic acid are listed as 'generally recognised as safe' and are also
free of maximum residue limits.  Thus the substances mentioned by Bill
Truesdell are apparently not illegal in the European Union, nor is
formic acid subject to any licensing requirement,

Regards
--
Mike Rowbottom


HARROGATE
UK