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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13391" data-attributes="member: 13">Agree with both those last 2 posts. Usually in a commercial outfit that has been going for a while, the attitude to AFB can be entrenched in the management and field staff, whether they are right, or wrong. As Tristan said.However there have been cases over the last several years where a beekeeping outfit has had a big infection rate, but the outfits management have been cooperative and willing to work with the Agency to make a plan to eliminate AFB from their outfit. And this has been successful in a number of cases some of which have been reported in The Beekeeper magazine. Of course the Agency are not fools, and they have monitored progress by means of further inspections, but in some cases this successful outcome has been achieved with little more input from the agency than advice and monitoring.In other cases the beekeeper has been unable to see their AFB infestation as a serious problem, have not been willing to change their systems, and have been obstructive, attempting to prevent inspections from happening, etc. In these cases it is the job of the Agency to enforce elimination of AFB, with or without the consent of the beekeeper. This is where things can go pear shaped, with the beekeeper feeling persecuted. However the mandate of the Agency is to eliminate AFB, and they are legally entitled to require AFB to be destroyed when it is found. If they did not, there would be no point having an Agency, or us paying a levy to enable them to do it.</blockquote>

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