On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 20:52:11 +0200, Roger White wrote:

"The big problem is the costs - around 30,000 Cyprus pounds (50,000 Euro)
for an outfit of my size - 500 hives.... In Finland are there any grants
from the EU to help with upgrading to HACCP standards?"

Here in the USA the Homeland Security/FDA and others has those beekeepers
with a separate processing facility, ie. a honey house, requiring
registration. I can see the handwritting on the wall for further
government requirements such as HACCP.  If this holds true then perhaps
some of the tobacco buyout funds/money could be used to fund our
beekeepers gaining acceptance; then again would we want the cat out of the
bag here in the US.

Chuck Norton
Norton's Nut & Honey Farm
Reidsville, NC

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