From: "deelusbybeekeeper" <deelusbybeekeeper@excelonline.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:59:39 -0800
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Clean wax for Organic Production?

Hi to all on Biological Beekeeping

Trevor wrote the following:

> > You say honey taken conforms to the international standard for honey.
> > Trevor, am I right in assuming the following is still in place for EC Honey
> > Standrds:
>
> I am not sure of the exact standards but if we did not conform we would not
> be able to export. We just recently had inpsections by EU personnel and I
> believe we passed.
>
> Australia is looking to produce organic honey but of course there are
> different standards in different countries. I personally will not be
> looking at this market as I do not have the hives now to produce quantity.
> However, I have no problem in eating the honey I produce despite it not
> being able to called organic. Good luck to those who want to go to the
> effort of producing organic honey.

Reply:

Happy to hear you just recently passed inspections by EU for regular honey
shipments. I understand. Going organic can be difficult.

However, going biological is obtainable for everyone to get back to
beekeeing of old, though I can see some migratory may require comb rotation,
because of contract work in the field, from time to time.But at least we can
get them back to business as usual, without the additional acaricides
busting everyones budget for black ink.

Chow

Dee