02.12.2016
- Health Canada is inviting comments through the end of February 2017 on its preliminary plans to ban the chemical imidacloprid, an active ingredient in neonicotinoid-based...
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...
08.11.2013
- BASF has taken the European Commission (EC) to court over plans to include the German group's insecticide fipronil in a two-year moratorium on products suspected of playing a role...
17.01.2013
- Three widely-used pesticides made by Switzerland's Syngenta and Germany's Bayer pose an acute risk to honeybees, the European Union's food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, but...
21.09.2012
- British scientists have shot down a study on declining honeybee populations that triggered a French ban on a pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta. France's farm...
