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United Kingdom: Government to ignore European ban on neonicotinoid pesticides

2013-02-06 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

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 organisations recommendation two weeks ago that neonicotinoid pesticides, widely blamed for bee declines around the world, should be kept away from bees, was merely...

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