RSS Feed
Independent: The British Government is completely free to ignore recommendations from European safety regulators that controversial nerve-agent pesticides should not be used on crops visited by bees, MPs were told.
Herman Fontier, head of the pesticides division of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), told a Parliamentary committee that his organisation’s recommendation two weeks ago that neonicotinoid pesticides, widely blamed for bee declines around the world, should be kept away from bees, was merely......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
United Kingdom: Government to ignore European ban on neonicotinoid pesticides
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 6th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation