From: Erik Osterlund <honeybee@elgon.se>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:30:20 +0100
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Clean wax for Organic Production?

Hi Dave

Dark wax doesn't matter much for the bees as far as I have learnt. Why do
you suspect DDT?. The wax would be from loghives mainly I suppose, not too close to farmland as the bees are quite fierce. Or...?

Erik

>> 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