>Many of these chemicals are cheap and readily available. The EPA and the USDA >should have given beekeepers the go ahead to use them years ago. Rather than >raise the bar so high that it isn't worth going to market, they should have published >clear instructions on how to purchase, prepare and use the raw materials." PETER I hoped you Will Lobby and push for registration of Generic formic acid As you said you doing for MAQS .All I try is to provide support and facts for you and your friends. AS for taking about FA there is EPA RULING ON IT: From: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:32 AM To: Bill Ruzicka CC: [log in to unmask] Subject:: Re: Registration of Formic Acid The people who enforce the issue in question is our office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), who I just spoke to. According to them, only advertising and sales of unregistered pesticide is considered illegal. There is nothing preventing you from "promoting" the use of an unregistered product. All you are doing is giving advice, which is not considered as advertising or sales. The "problem" ends once the registration is signed and considered final by this agency Bill Ruzicka Bill's Honey Farm - Home of the MiteGone Formic Acid Treatment 2910 Glenmore Road North Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 2B6 CANADA Tel/Fax: 1-250-762-8156 (the best way to reach me is by phone Pacific Time) Email: [log in to unmask] (include your phone number so I can call you back) Website: www.mitegone.com *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm