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OMG less than one part per million of a harmless residue! And you have 40% chance of exposure if you consume very specific products!
GOOD GOD

I have some news for you.

You're eating Bee spit. A little chemical residue doesn't sound so bad now, does it?

/Unfazed by this

Benzaldehyde smells like almonds.

One could skip the majority of the chemical identification tests in my lab final for organic chemistry I by simply smelling the chemical first. Just needed to do the tests to prove what it smelt like.

Butryic Anhydride (new window) LD50 Rat oral 8790 mg/kg

Benzaldehyde (new window) LD50 Rat oral 1300 mg/kg


oh noes

Butyric acid is what the Sea Shepherds threw at the Japanese whaling ships. Terrorist chemicals are in your honey.

No wonder they won't allow it on airplanes.

That was incredibly boring.

Mmmmmmmmm, mead.

Hey brother, do yo r b missin?

jingks: Benzaldehyde smells like almonds.

One could skip the majority of the chemical identification tests in my lab final for organic chemistry I by simply smelling the chemical first. Just needed to do the tests to prove what it smelt like.


Are you nuts? Benzaldehyde smelled like something plastic caught fire. Was one of the most vile and pernicious scents in the lab when I was working there.

Maybe diluted all to hell it smells like almonds. I say that because butyric acid smells like butter in small doses, but in large concentrations it makes a horrible smell that makes me want to Yak.

Pretty bee. And Silent Tom, you are a God among men.

AverageAmericanGuy: Butyric acid is what the Sea Shepherds threw at the Japanese whaling ships. Terrorist chemicals are in your honey.

No wonder they won't allow it on airplanes.

It's rancid butter. Smells horrible, but not dangerous, even in large amounts.

Ikahoshi: Are you nuts? Benzaldehyde smelled like something plastic caught fire. Was one of the most vile and pernicious scents in the lab when I was working there.

Really? "Plastic caught fire" reminds me more of phenol. There was also a beetle sex pheromone that smelled quite sweet, but I can't recall the name of it.

That's because Johnson, of Harrop-Procter, B.C., makes two trips to his hives over a 24-hour period during the harvesting process, giving time for the bees, "through the natural course of their activity in the hive," to move down below the honey level.

The first trip inserts a bee excluder panel at that honey level, that they can only crawl downwards through, in case anyone wondered.

Ikahoshi: jingks: Benzaldehyde smells like almonds.

One could skip the majority of the chemical identification tests in my lab final for organic chemistry I by simply smelling the chemical first. Just needed to do the tests to prove what it smelt like.


Are you nuts? Benzaldehyde smelled like something plastic caught fire. Was one of the most vile and pernicious scents in the lab when I was working there.

Maybe diluted all to hell it smells like almonds. I say that because butyric acid smells like butter in small doses, but in large concentrations it makes a horrible smell that makes me want to Yak.

I did an aldol condensation in my organic lab this semester with benzaldehyde and acetone. Benzaldehyde smells pretty much like almond/amaretto to me. I think it's also used to impart almond "flavor" in some foods too.

/CSB

Ikahoshi: jingks: Benzaldehyde smells like almonds.

One could skip the majority of the chemical identification tests in my lab final for organic chemistry I by simply smelling the chemical first. Just needed to do the tests to prove what it smelt like.


Are you nuts? Benzaldehyde smelled like something plastic caught fire. Was one of the most vile and pernicious scents in the lab when I was working there.

Maybe diluted all to hell it smells like almonds. I say that because butyric acid smells like butter in small doses, but in large concentrations it makes a horrible smell that makes me want to Yak.

Yeah... the website I found on the stuff says almond... you might be getting it confused.

Ronin_S: AverageAmericanGuy: Butyric acid is what the Sea Shepherds threw at the Japanese whaling ships. Terrorist chemicals are in your honey.

No wonder they won't allow it on airplanes.

It's rancid butter. Smells horrible, but not dangerous, even in large amounts.

Yes, I remember what the Sea Shepherds' excuse was.

So if your allergic to honey AND this residue...

\/\ /O\ /\/
O O

/getting a kick out of these replies
//poor man's ASCII representation of butyric anhydride

nvm...that didn't work out like I planned at all hehe

silent tom:

bump
upboated

berylman: \/\ /O\ /\/
O O

/getting a kick out of these replies
//poor man's ASCII representation of butyric anhydride

CPUYODA: So if your allergic to honey AND this residue...

Dayum. So whenever you think YOUR day sucks...

wademh: thanks for clarifying what I was trying to get across. yay chemdraw!

FTComments: Sara Schmidt, Why did you not entitle your article, "Honey Proves to be one of the Cleanest Foods on the Supermarket Shelf?"

Why did you not compare these honey samples with a basket of other foods so the public could see that most all foods are seriously contaminated with something? Most of the foods on the shelf would show 10 out of 10 as highly contaminated with something, ................or didn't 'they' test all the others? And Honey scored 6 clean ones?

...THEY DID!

FTA: All other food products tested by CFIA meet the 95-per-cent compliance target, according to agency's 2009/10 performance report. They include processed products (99 per cent), fresh fruit and vegetables (97 per cent), meat (96 per cent), dairy (96 per cent), and fish and seafood (95 per cent).

Really, where do they find these imbeciles?

Anyone want to guess where the offending honey comes from? Canada? The US? Hmmm, elsewhere?

Is it so wrong to find that Aunt Bee is lookin' mighty fine??

I smell illicit Chinese honey laundering. China can't dump their honey here any more, so I guess Canada was the next stop.

jingks: Ikahoshi: Are you nuts? Benzaldehyde smelled like something plastic caught fire. Was one of the most vile and pernicious scents in the lab when I was working there.

Really? "Plastic caught fire" reminds me more of phenol. There was also a beetle sex pheromone that smelled quite sweet, but I can't recall the name of it.


...nor the night of sweet beetle love that ensued...


I could be remembering wrong, or the dumbass who was doing something in the fume hood without the exhaust fan on was using the wrong chemicals, because I recall he was supposed to have had benzaldehyde in there.

We were all pissed at him because he unleashed an ungodly stench for no damned good reason. That smell crawled up into my nose and made a nest in there... I swear I caught periodic whiffs of it all day long even after I was out of the lab.

Canada?

Trying to give a rat's ass and coming up short.

I generally shun the whole locally produced organic crap thing. But, I will say I'm hooked on some local honey here which comes from bees that have feasted on sunflower pollen.

Never really realized the taste of the honey depends on the pollen they made it from. Grocery store honey is a pale pale version of the real deal.

CPUYODA: So if your allergic to honey AND this residue...



/you're

Buzzy, are you buzzing off?

bee keeping is becoming popular with hipsters, so you might want to keep an eye out for urban honey (new window)

What? No Nicolas Cage Bee picture?

CPUYODA: So if your allergic to honey AND this residue...

HOLY SHIAT. That's a hell of a reaction.

woohoohoo

Pooh thread?

/hotter than a steaming pile of ... well, you know.