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This is a history of the New Zealand poisonous honey problem. New Zealand was not the first country to report problems with poisonous honey. Poisonings have been known worldwide for more than 2,000 years and still occurs in some countries today. As well as descriptions of the poisoning incidents, the history includes a description of the efforts of beekeepers, beekeeping advisors, doctors, and scientists who took 80 years to identify the source of the poison, and regulators who attempted to eliminate the problem. Although this is a historical account, the threat of poisoning from toxic honey is still present today. The last reported poisonings occurred as recently as 2008 when 22 people were poisoned after consuming toxic honey from the Coromandel Peninsula. It is important for beekeepers to be aware of this history in order to prevent new poisoning incidents.
About the author
Mark Goodwin is a balancer, walker, climber, and stroller who speaks and writes in various ways in various places - on paper, on-line, blended with photos, in film-poems, to live audience, or through mixing his voice with field-recordings & soundscapes ... and often through collaboration with other artists. He is also a ground-aslanter, his work being included in Shearsman Books' ground-tilting anthology 'The Ground Aslant - An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry' (2011). To date (June 2017), Mark has published a number of full-length poetry collections and several chapbooks with various English poetry houses. He continues to explore on foot or with feet-&-hands English, Welsh, Scottish mountains, urban-rimlands, crags, coastlands, individual trees of various species, riverbanks, derelict buildings, lakeshores, woodlands, various fence-rails, suspended-narrow-ways and ... moors ...Mark was born in 1969, and grew up on a farm in South Leicestershire. For the past twenty years or so he has lived on a narrow-boat, just off the river Soar, a little to the north of Leicester.
