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Beeswax -
contaminated with Chemicals, artificial wax or GM Maize pollen? Is it enough
to purchase organic beeswax? Does chemical analysis of beeswax show everything?
Beeswax -
in Pharmacy and Cosmetics, alternative Medicine, holistic therapies and
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Beeswax - contaminated
with Chemicals and artificial wax?
According to new scientific
research, agriculture and environment contaminate beeswax only little.
The apiary itself is the source for contamination. One needs to attach
the greatest importance to varroa exterminators, and waxmoth exterminator
Paradichlorbenzol (PDCB). A heightened Coumaphos- concentration in wax
can be even toxic to queens. Bad side effects on brood and health of bees
can't be excluded also by lower beeswax concentrations. The accumulation
of Varroazides in combwax leads to a kind of „long-term-therapy" of Varroa,
which can cause resistances.
Beeswax,
propolis, honey, comb honey, royal jelly being used in pharmacy, alternative
medicine, cosmetics, holistic therapies, needs to be residue free.
For the time being there is only little uncontaminated beeswax on the Europien
market as most beekeepers work with artificial parts of the combs (foundations).
Such beeswax needs to be imported from countries outside of Europe together
with until now unknown substances - However, more and more also in Europe
beekeepers work without artificial compounds in the apiary; especially
in the Center for ecological Apiculture and its certified member apiaries
uncontaminated beeswax is being produced, as these apiaries work completely
without foundations and the beeswax is harvested from combs drawn out naturally
by the bees. Read more about sources
of supply for pure beeswax...
bee products used
for alternative medicine, apitherapy, holistic healing, homeopathic therapies
and cosmetics need to be without residuals. Beeswax, partitions, comb in
the comb and propolis, sold by trading companies or ebay, may contain paraffine
and DEET. Artificial comb honey in cassettes made of wood or plastic also
contain artificial beeswax.
Beeswax - Is it enough
to purchase organic beeswax? Does chemical analysis of beeswax show everything?
More important than
chemical
analysis of products such as beeswax, comb honey, comb in the comb,
raw honey, raw-propolis, propolis-tincture, beesbread is the origin of
the raw materials, the way beekeepers keep their bees and which kind of
hives they use. This fact is overseen in many cases by trading companies
and producers of beeswax and propolis products. Propolis products offered
in supermarkets or drug stores sometimes contain not only pollutant loads
or enrichments with harmful substances but also cancer causing and biotechnological
produced sugar substitutes as isomalt or aspartame.
The quality of food
and beeproducts such as beeswax cannot be clearified by common analytic
methods and techniques. Analytic procedures are too crude; thats the reason
why foodstuff inspectors were often easy game for the swindlers.
Also methods of harvesting
propolis and pollen are very often anything but according the needs of
bees. Even socalled "organic" beeswax may be contaminated with beeswax
that contains low amounts of pesticides or paraffin. Thus, raw honey, beeswax,
beesbread, pollen and propolis may be contaminated, especially if beekeeping
methods are not according standards of Centre for ecological Apiculture.
Beeswax - contaminated
with GM Maize pollen?
Honeybees in Switzerland
collect pollen from maize, also GM-maize (which is not yet prohibited in
Switzerland), more frequently than expected; these pollen can be found
in beeproducts (pollen, beesbread, comb in the comb, propolis, beeswax)
from Switzerland. Food containing GM-maize or compounds of other genetically
engineered crops are toxic as new scientific research turned out.
Beeswax - in Pharmacy
and Cosmetics, alternative Medicine, holistic therapies and Natural Cosmetics
As cosmetic industry
want to offer low budget products, it is creating now cremes, lotions and
fragrances without natural ingredients good for skin care such as beeswax
and organic herbal oils; cosmetic industry is using poor and cancerogenic
compounds instead such as Paraffinum Liqu., microcristaline wax (Mikroparaffin)
or vaseline, PEG (Polyethylenglykol), Aluminium, Benzoeacid. Even expensive
cosmetics may contain substances who support tumors in respiratory tract.
Candles without beeswax made of plant oils from genetically modified cotton
seeds may be dangerous. Read more
about sources of supply for pure beeswax...
Beeswax - in Pharmacy
and Cosmetics, alternative Medicine, holistic therapies and Natural Cosmetics:
Further
reading and references
Social Medicine / Natural
Apitherapy Research Center / Centre for ecological Apiculture 2010: Manuka
Health and Organic honey - which Standards are relevant for social Medicine
/ natural Apitherapy?Api Review Letters 9, Nr. 422
Social Medicine /
Natural Apitherapy Research Center / Centre for ecological Apiculture 2010:
Quality
of products from beecolonies such as beeswax, raw honey, comb in the comb,
comb honey, pollen, beesbread, propolis and royal jelly - for social medicine,
apitherapeutical and cosmetic use. Press release
Centre for ecological
Apiculture 2010: Old Traditions in Apiculture
and Viniculture - Natural Honey (raw honey / run honey) or Organic Honey
fom framehive beekeeping with smoke, sulphur and artificial parts of the
comb? Press release
Copyright:
Social Medicine / Natural Apitherapy Research Center
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Important
courses in 2010:
Alternative therapies, health and nutrition,
holistic healing, natural Apitherapy:
Certification
courses / Traineeship holistic healing and natural Apitherapy (#162)
Information
Course natural Apitherapy
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