MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus. In Belfast's City Hospital Professor John Moore and his small team of scientists are in hot pursuit of superbugs. The superbugs could withstand some of the most powerful antibiotics known to man but when confronted with a wave of sugary sweetness, they lost their will to live. But that was not all. Honey also contains hydrogen peroxide which has antimicrobial properties.

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Paper prepared by Feng Lia, Suresh Awalea, Yasuhiro Tezukaa and Shigetoshi Kadota

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Paper prepared by Paulus H. S. Kwakman; Johannes P. C. Van den Akker; Ahmet Güçlü; Hamid Aslami; Jan M. Binnekade; Leonie de Boer; Laura Boszhard; Frederique Paulus; Pauline Middelhoek; Anje A. te Velde; Christina M. J. E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls; Marcus J. Schultz and Sebastian A. J. Zaat

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In a Mid-Michigan Children's Museum a buzzing sound emanates in a corner. It's a bee hive with soon-to-arrive bee puppets inside its honeycombs.

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Test results released today confirmed that the two tutu toxins were in comb honey from the Coromandel Peninsula eaten by 22 people who reported falling ill. Tutin toxin is difficult to identify in the human body, but Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) animal products manager Jim Sim said the confirmation came through testing of leftovers provided by people who fell ill after eating the honey from Whangamata's Projen Apiaries at Easter.

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Chief veterinary officer, Miklós Süth, explained that documentation and equipment discovered at the Aranynektar Kft factory in Dunavarsány provided strong grounds for suspicion that the company has been bulking up its produce with syrups. The quality of the honey sold in Hungary was called into question last May when an independent laboratory analysis commissioned by bee keepers found that seventy per cent of the honey on supermarket shelves had been adulterated in some way.

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Theme: Nutritional Qualities of Bee Products, by Prof. Dr. Ligia de Almeida Bicudo Muradian, of the Department of Experimental Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo on May 7, 2008.

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The Apicultural day took place at the premises of the Centre for retired from the Diamante City Police. At the time the director of International Relations at the Ministry of Production, Cristian Uliana, indicated that the day began with a visit to the honey extraction room of the Diamante Apicultural Cooperative 'where they exhibited the extraction plant and machinery with which have also set out the advantages and benefits of the service providers already serving hives, advise and assist in small beekeepers harvest 'adding that every day' demonstrates the conviction of teamwork and its philosophy of family.

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Today was opened a house of honey with the joint efforts of the prefecture, the Bank of Brazil Foundation and the Bank of Brazil, gathered at the Regional Sustainable Development Programme (DRS). The house of honey will work in community Cassaco (Quebra-Pot)

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At the moment, the Government gives £200,000 (US$ 394,000) to bee health research each year, but the association is calling for £1.6m (US$ 3.15 millon) to be pumped into studies this year. An association spokesman said: 'The Government has refused to increase the paltry £200,000 it currently puts into bee health research. It is estimated honey bees contribute around £165m (US$ 325 millon) to the agricultural economy each year by pollinating plants which produce crops and seeds. The Government says it provides £1.3m (US$ 2.56 millon)each year to look after the bee population and £200,000 (US$ 394,000) each year for research into bee health.

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