From: "joel acheson" <joeljed@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 19:39:43 -0000
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Line 66 - wax

>Reply so far from Dadant:
>
>I guess that if there were "organic standards" requiring. A hive and
>its
>components to be free of exposure to listed substances over a set period of
>time that pre-exposure hive components would be a contaminant and negate an
>organic status.

Joel wonders:

Last week when I was assembling some supers, applying glue to the corner
rabbetts, the question occurred whether this glue, too, would be a
contaminant under a strict interpretation of these standards; some of the
glue does, after all, weep into the inside edge of the joint?

Then, too, as I paint the outside of my supers and a little bit runs down an
inside wall, does this violate the standards?

I like best of all Dee's simple statement re: the care taken in the
production of the honey, as follows...

>"Produced by organic field methods (or management) without the use of
>essential oils, drugs, chemicals, acids and artificial feeds."

Joel