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A concern to all of us is the build up of chemical treatments in wax. This persists, even through processing into new comb foundation, so chemicals are being added to hives just by giving them new foundation.
the thought is that these combs then get more contamination and the problem gradually worsens, eventually to a doomsday type scenario.
What I want to discover is if contamination levels in wax are continuing to increase. From one perspective, much wax comes from cappings, which is new wax not made from the foundation. Of course bees run over the capping causing contamination, but is it worse than previous?
So are contamination levels still gradually creeping up in the average piece of wax that might be used for foundation, or have levels reached a point where they stabilised?
And yes I have googled for this. There is plenty info about contamination, just not about wether it's endlessly getting worse. Hoping someone might know.
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