From: "Lucinda Sewell" <lucindajohn@sewellhome.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 23:05:21 -0000
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Clean wax for Organic Production?

Hii all

> I think this is maybe something we should talk more about on Biobee! Where
> are the supplies going to come from?
> Dee

Mocambique.

Now there's an answer to throw some fat (peferably laden with chemicals) on
the fire. In the bad old colonial days Mocambique produced (along with a lot
of other things) some very fine beeswax. Now African honey is an acquired
taste, and it does horrible things to Commercial packers filters...but the
wax?

Unfortunately this doesn't gel with my own philosophy where the less miles
something travels to its point of consumption the better...How clean do we
get the wax after 3 renderings? What if we cast thin sheets and expose to
sunlight and air for awhile? Where do the migrating pyrethoids go?

John