From: Micky Lee <mlee4321@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:53:16 -0600
To: BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Clean Wax for Organic Production

I have visited the Dadant operation in Hamilton, Illinois. They have
tons of wax as purchased. It varies in color from black, brown, to straw
yellow. Their plant is very large. The wax is melted, strained and
bleached. The finished product is the same, no matter what it looked
liked when it began the process.

No one in the US has made news claiming the could remove fluvalinate. At
least one company admits they cannot produce pesticide free, food grade
beeswax. They have purchased a large quantity of filtered, purified wax
from a company in Europe to make comb foundation with.

Fluvalinate is hydrophobic, and wax soluble therefore very difficult to
remove from wax.

I will ask at the meeting next month, as to where the pesticide free wax
came from.

Micky