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My wife stated "It is either me or the bees", 45 years later she is still here.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210316/Investigating-Food-Fraud-in-the-Honey-Industry.aspx

I think that many of you would be surprised at what goes on in apiaries covered by cameras.

I believe the message has been circulated that the apiaries are covered by cameras. The culprits denied everything until we sent them an email with their photographs. They came here within 10 minutes begging us not to report it to the police and paid cash for the damage they had done.

Obvious answer for theft and vandalism is a trail camera. It worked for me, they destroyed the camera only to be photographed by a second one.

Actually not far from the truth. There is a huge problem with drone/semen quality = motility and quantity, induced by chemical/substance residues.

Well it IS the replacement for third country trade, same protocol here, samples taken, bees examined, submit application, get approved, get VET 10 and off they go.

TRACES now replaced by VET10 certificate, same general format.

So what species would that be? Dorsata, florea, cerana?

All Langstroth, there are many suppliers in Crete - Greece. There is some really quality equipment.

Ergonomics! Ergonomics!

In addition: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8973415/Supermarket-scandal-sees-honey-bulked-cheap-sugar-syrups.html?fbclid=IwAR3vTAMMmu3_19w7aIZCchPgKpQgqMKlRaZJK9MplMJJpI7VKMRdAGs8eM8

Erichalfbee: It does indeed. A real and very serious "Cat and Mouse" scenario being played by the suppliers, dealers, packers against the testing labs. Once within the EU the pseudo-honey has a passport to be moved and sold without a problem. Readers might also be interested to learn that...

I just graft and get good results. These were the penultimate grafts this year. For reference, bar is 10mm thick.

https://www.honeyap.org/ Some files in the site's sub-menu.

Hello, is this a UK regulation or a EU directive?

It is illegal to market it as honey. No additives allowed.

If you are not recycling your cappings wax and making your own foundation, you probably already have some of it in your combs.

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