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Stung By Fraudsters, Honey Execs Hold Secret Talks

By Andrew SchneiderApr 26th 2010 – 6:09PM
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(April 26) -- For the nation's leading honey packers and sellers, smuggled and laundered foreign honey is presenting a vexingly sticky problem. Today, they gathered for a secret meeting to discuss the impact it is having on their businesses. "The objective of the meeting will be a frank discussion of issues affecting the...

Background on chloramphenicol

Chloramphenicol (INN) is a bacteriostatic antimicrobial that became available in 1949. It is considered a prototypical broad-spectrum antibiotic, alongside the tetracyclines, and as it is both cheap and easy to manufacture it is frequently an antibiotic of choice in the Third World.

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