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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 13140" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>I recently wrote up what I could find relating to the history of paraffin wax dipping:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.beekeeping.nz/?page_id=435" target="_blank">Paraffin Wax Dipping</a></p><p></p><p>As with a lot of my writing, I didn't focus on the use of the article, and write to the audience and purpose. The text is mostly what I was preparing for a more formal article, so you might want to skip down to the summary toward the bottom. I do much prefer to write in such a way that I can easily provide the links to the "old" material for people to evaluate for themselves.</p><p></p><p>In collecting the information, three things in particular stood out for me:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The consistency in recommended time and temperature, even long before it was confirmed in the late 1990s. 160 deg C for 10 minutes was the recommendation in almost all these articles over time (for AFB sterilisation).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The realisation that there probably wasn't anyone who "discovered" the use of hot paraffin dipping for AFB gear sterilisation. It probably came over quite a period time as bkprs realised that gear wasn't causing reinfections.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The persistence of allowing the treatment of AFB-infected gear with scorching and boiling in caustic. As late as *1975* the classic "Beekeeping in New Zealand" book described those methods, though advising against them. Fair enough, the book was for the most part a reprint of an earlier book, and may not have had the editorial rigour to pick up on that. The first bkpr I worked for (in 1974) had some boxes that were scorched on the inside by a previous owner, but even then I was under the impression that it had been outlawed as ineffective.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 13140, member: 44"] I recently wrote up what I could find relating to the history of paraffin wax dipping: [URL='https://www.beekeeping.nz/?page_id=435']Paraffin Wax Dipping[/URL] As with a lot of my writing, I didn't focus on the use of the article, and write to the audience and purpose. The text is mostly what I was preparing for a more formal article, so you might want to skip down to the summary toward the bottom. I do much prefer to write in such a way that I can easily provide the links to the "old" material for people to evaluate for themselves. In collecting the information, three things in particular stood out for me: [LIST=1] [*]The consistency in recommended time and temperature, even long before it was confirmed in the late 1990s. 160 deg C for 10 minutes was the recommendation in almost all these articles over time (for AFB sterilisation). [*]The realisation that there probably wasn't anyone who "discovered" the use of hot paraffin dipping for AFB gear sterilisation. It probably came over quite a period time as bkprs realised that gear wasn't causing reinfections. [*]The persistence of allowing the treatment of AFB-infected gear with scorching and boiling in caustic. As late as *1975* the classic "Beekeeping in New Zealand" book described those methods, though advising against them. Fair enough, the book was for the most part a reprint of an earlier book, and may not have had the editorial rigour to pick up on that. The first bkpr I worked for (in 1974) had some boxes that were scorched on the inside by a previous owner, but even then I was under the impression that it had been outlawed as ineffective. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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