05.04.2016
- France’s lower house of the country’s parliament, Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly), has voted to place an outright ban on the use of all neonicotinoid insecticides in the...
14.01.2016
- After slamming the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for overestimating the impact of neonicotinoid-based (neonic) pesticides on bee populations in the first of its proposed...
08.10.2015
- As the preliminary end of the EU’s two-year moratorium on certain applications of neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides nears, the UK’s decision in July to allow selective exceptions...
15.04.2015
- The US is moving more closely into line with Europe in restricting the use of neonicotinoid-based insecticides suspected of posing risks to bee populations. Faced with mounting...
16.01.2015
- Germany's agrochemical industry association IVA has taken the EU to task over its two-year moratorium on the use of neonicotioid-based insecticides, in effect since December 2013...
20.10.2014
- An analysis by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has concluded that neonicotinoid (neonic) insectides do not increases soybean yields. The Agency has been reviewing the...
16.10.2014
- Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta has petitioned the US environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the legal tolerance for residues of several crop protection agents...
04.09.2014
- Beekeepers in Canada's Ontario province are suing global chemical producers Syngenta and Bayer for $450 million, alleging that their neonicotinoid-based (neonic) pesticides are...
