I have to disagree with what Peter has said here.    It is a case of "Size
does not matter".  We all know that some people die from one bee sting - a
very small amount of venom.  Would it be more toxic is you drank a whole
pint of it?  In homeopathic medicine the cures contain very  little of the
active ingredient (perhaps none!!) and yet they seem to have an effect on
the body. I don't think therefore  that the amount of toxic material in
honey or anything else is not important.  It seems also that Lisa Saffron is
only concerned with cancer but this is only one diseases which can be traced
to contaminated food.   I would agree that we do eat a lot of toxic material
but over the years we have become accustomed to eating it and it may in fact
even do us some good.   The GM products and the new weedkillers,
insecticides etc which go along with them are the contaminants we have to
worry about as we have not seen these in honey before.  It looks to me as
though honey from rape is going to be contaminated with GM material in
future years and I believe this could be a bad thing for British beekeeping.
Harry



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