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To: Red Badger
A person is not allergic to the honey, but what’s in the honey.

As a beekeeper, honey harvester, and honey enjoyer... I offer a honey tidbit of the day on the subject below. I note that unusable honey is VERY rare, and as far as I know, not a concern here in the US.

There are a few rare places where local honey is actually poisonous, via poisonous pollen. In these localities (I don't know of any in the US), bee keepers only collect harvestable honey outside of the problem pollen-producing timeframes... or don't collect at all. I believe there is someplace in Europe (Holland?) where a beekeeper is required to determine there are no poisonous-pollen producing plants within a certain radius of their hives.

31 posted on 06/10/2010 12:02:24 PM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
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To: C210N

Ive often wondered about honey from oleander blossoms.............


32 posted on 06/10/2010 12:06:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
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