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EU Fails to Ban Neonicotinoid Pesticides, Support Bee Health
2013-03-15 17:02:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: Syngenta Syngenta has responded to the failure of the European Commission to win support for an EU-wide ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. A majority of Member States refused to support the proposal to restrict their use on all bee attractive crops. The Commission must now decide whether to appeal the decision or amend its proposal. read more
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EU Commission wants curbs on pesticides to protect bees
2013-02-13 00:17:21| Chemicals - Topix.net
Sergej, a member of the city beekeeper organization, works with bees at Lobau recreation area in Vienna.
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United Kingdom: Bee deaths 'not down to pesticides'
2013-02-08 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Last week the European Commission proposed that member states restrict the use of certain classes of pesticide that are believed to be harmful to bees. The Today programme's science correspondent Tom Feilden explains that this comes after the European Food Safety Authority (Efsa) issued guidance on the use of chemical neonicotinoids, in which they recognised "high acute risks" to bees who encountered residue from these sprays in pollen and nectar in crops like oilseed rape and sunflowers. Speaking...
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EPA Strengthens Protections for Participants in Third Party Human Studies Involving Pesticides
2013-02-08 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Lisa P. Jackson signed amendments strengthening existing standards for human research involving pesticides submitted by third parties for consideration in EPA decision-making. Amendments broaden scope and applicability of EPA 2006 rule, strengthening standards for research considered in EPA decisions; clarifying approach used in EPA's science and ethics reviews of human research involving pesticides; and disallowing participation in testing by subjects who cannot consent for themselves. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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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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