University Project Needs Honey Samples

[mannky]

There is an article in the Education Guardian today by Andrew Mourant called Follow the Bees. I cant find it on the internet. The University Of Wales are asking for your honey samples to be sent to Jenny Hawkins Welsh School Of Pharmacy, Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB. This is to provide material for a research project looking into the anti bacterial properties of honey to eventually combat things like MRSA.

 

[drstitson]

given the University funding crisis they are probably just selling the jars from a stall outside campus!!!

 

[Kate's Bees]

I also read about this and I have to say the cynic it me read it as a fishing exercise to try and find the next wonderdrug that will make a pharmacutical company a lot of money.

The article I read may have got my back up a little as it was written in a way that implied the research would benefit bees.

 

[dpearce4]

surely they should be looking at propolis as this is known to be antibacterial.

 

[Swarm]

Honey has been used as wound dressing since the dark ages, Henry V was treated with honey for a facial wound.

 

[BeeNice]

I think I'll start a research fund 'please send me your pound jars filled with honey, no labels and I'll see how many I can sell, no refunds, sorry'. And while you are at it to make me even more happy, everyone in GB send me a £1.
Here's waiting.......
Steven

 

[For want of a better word]

Honey has been used as wound dressing since the dark ages, Henry V was treated with honey for a facial wound.

Was he the one with a face like a shoebox?

I wanted to take an American girlfriend to see Henry V, but she did not want to go..........
not because she did not like Shakespear, but because she had not seen Henry 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th and thought she would not get the story line!!!

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[Bee-Key-Pur]

( I wanted to take an American girlfriend to see Henry V, but she did not want to go..........
not because she did not like Shakespear, but because she had not seen Henry 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th and thought she would not get the story line!!! )


I would have to side with your girlfriend, I have problems keeping up with these serials.... lol

Brian

 

[Russel]

IIRC they only wanted honey from Wales to tie in with the plant dna project too.
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11438&highlight=University+Wales

 

[Kate's Bees]

Honey is still used in wound dressings. Particularly ulcers where it helps to clean them (then again so are maggots).