Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–May 4, 2015. Center for Food Safety today challengeda U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) letter countering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) October, 2014 findings 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.” The USDA letter failed to provide any substantive economic or scientific evidence that EPA’s conclusions were wrong. Scientists worldwide have increasingly linked widespread uses of neonicotinoids,…
