Center for Food Safety demands agency immediately curb use of controversial insecticide
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 17, 2014. Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released findingsconcluding that neonicotinoid insecticides “provide negligible overall benefits to soybean production in most situations” and that most of the existing use on soybean seeds is merely “prophylactic.” Scientists worldwide have increasingly linked widespread uses of neonicotinoids, largely as seed coatings, to honey bee declines and poor health in a variety of pollinator species and other beneficial insects. Center…
