France Bans Syngenta Pesticide Linked to Bee Decline
June 16th, 2012Via: Farmers Weekly:
The French government has banned a pesticide linked to the decline of bees that is widely used to treat oilseed rape.
Cruiser OSR, which contains the neonicotinoid insecticide thiamethoxam, was banned for use on oilseed rape by the French Ministry of Agriculture.
Made by the Swiss agrichemical company Syngenta, Cruiser OSR is a seed treatment, which is coated onto the rape seeds.
The decision to ban Cruiser follows two studies earlier this year, in the UK and France, which found evidence that neonicotinoids contain chemicals that disorientate bees and prevent them from finding their way back to hives, causing colony collapse disorder.
Oh yeah, until France,whose recent ban on GM maize was overturned by the E.U., gets overruled again…
OTOH, Germany banned all neonicotinoids in 2008 and has seen their bee population increase.
Maybe Monsanto has more power than Bayer. I suppose we’ll have to see about Syngenta.