took me a while but I found the post I posted b/4.
I found where the usda was testing the method that they use for testing honey, I'll copy the interesting parts below and give the link.
http://ddr.nal.usda.gov/bitstream/10...ND44027553.pdf <---- note this url no longer works I'll see if I can find it again.
Incurred Honey Samples. The performance of the method
was evaluated with incurred honey obtained from treated
beehives. For most of the analytes, two incurred levels (n ) 5)
were assayed. Fumagillin and oxytetracycline residues were
detected in the incurred honey, but their levels were below the
validated range of the method. The highest CVs of the incurred
levels are reported in Table 5. The repeatability errors for the
tested analytes in the incurred honey were less than 14%.
Only three
of the 15 retail honeys tested were totally free from all 17
antibiotics. The majority of the honeys contained either one or
two of the antibiotics, and one sample had as many as four
different antibiotics. The positive findings are as follows: tylosin
(8), lincomycin (3), oxytetracycline (2), chloramphenicol (2),
streptomycin (2), sulfathiazole (1), tetracycline (1), and danofloxacin
now I didn't read all of the document and they didn't say where the honey came from but only 2 of the above are legal in the USA that I know of, and fumidil doesn't show up in any.
if anyone can read and understand the entire thing please let us know.
added they also said fumidil breaks down in light, my comment on that would be, if it actually made it into your jar of honey, wouldn't it then break down?? they also said at that time that they hadn't set a residual level yet for the legal chemicals, but that there is no legal level for the ilegal chems. if I read it correctly.