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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13368" data-attributes="member: 13">To me the use of antibiotics in beehives is not just about our export markets. The bigger problem is that they don't work.In the USA for example antibiotics used to be the main means of control, and even there it was never about eradication, just control. A treadmill that once the beekeeper was on, he could never get off.However the use of antibiotics in the USA has now been banned in almost all States, and burning is now the only allowed method of dealing with infected hives, other than in some cases where they can be irradiated. Same goes in a lot of other countries. For us to go with antibiotics would be a step backwards, and in direct conflict with the way the rest of the world is going.Time for proponents of antibiotics for NZ beehives to do a little research, wake up, and perhaps face reality.....Specially if they are telling people they are organic  🙄.</blockquote>

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