From: "Dave Cushman" <dave.cushman@lineone.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:42:25 -0000
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Clean wax for Organic Production?

Hi All

----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>

> Yes, south of Sahara I think too. There are traders with African wax I
> know, but I don't know them.

I was once offered 90 tonnes of African Beeswax.... It was in blocks that
they thought were refined, some of these were actually black. The lightest
was a dark orange...It would have cost a fortune to process. It all smelt
bad. It may have been free of bee treatments but what about the DDT and
breakdown products that it would contain.?

Regards From:- Dave Cushman, G8MZY
Beekeeping and Bee Breeding, website
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman