MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–June 3, 2012. The French government has put one of the world’s huge chemical pesticide manufacturers on notice: One of its newer insecticides is killing bees and that product’s days are numbered.
Thiamethoxam — one of many pesticides in the class known as neonicotinoids, or synthetic nicotines — was recently implicated in a report by France’s National Food, Environment and Work Safety Agency. A leading French government official said he plans to notify the manufacturer, Syngenta, that he will push for a full European ban of the product.
Here’s the story: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/france-to-ban-swiss-pesticide-as-bee-threat
Source: http://www.safelawns.org/
