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Oct 24, 2017
THE FOX CONTINUES IN CHARGE OF THE HENHOUSE Pesticide industry involvement in EU risk assessment
In 2010 Bee Life and Corporate Europe Observatory published a report showing how industry “experts” were undermining the EU review of the...
Mar 24, 2017
A possible total ban on Neonicotinoids. Good news for bees, the environment and food security
PRESS RELEASE Louvain la Neuve, 24th March 2017. A Possible Total Ban on Neonicotinoids. Good news for bees, the environment and food...
Jan 11, 2017
Neonicotinoids: Industry directs today a Farce of misleading information. Will the European Commissi
PRESS RELEASE - Brussels, 11 January 2017 The provision of false or incomplete information is a very common tactic the industry makes use...
Jan 2, 2017
Oct 13, 2016
Thiacloprid honey: European beekeepers against rising Maximum Residues Limits
-Position- On March 1, the EFSA issued a positive opinion on the change of the Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) in honey of thiacloprid, a...
Jul 14, 2016
Struggle for the Implementation of New Pesticide Assessment Methods with Regards to Bees - The Truth
In 2013, the EFSA updated the methodology for carrying out the risk assessment of pesticides on bees. Today this methodology is not yet...
Jun 22, 2016
Struggle for the Implementation of New Pesticide Assessment Methods with Regards to Bees - The Truth
PRESS RELEASE - Louvain la Neuve, June 22, 2016 In 2013, the EFSA updated the methodology for carrying out the risk assessment of...
Nov 19, 2015
EFSA Guidance : New methodologies to assess the risks of pesticides on bees
Bee Life European Beekeeping Coordination edited this article to give an overview of the situation regarding the risk assessment of...
Oct 29, 2015
Glyphosate - Need for a robust and credible scientific assessment of carcinogenicity
Cancer groups, health and environment NGOs call for emergency EU glyphosate ban 29 October 2015 A coalition of NGOs, including Bee Life,...
Oct 29, 2015
Stop Glyphosate
Cancer groups, health and environment NGOs call for emergency EU glyphosate ban 29 October 2015 A coalition of NGOs, including Bee Life,...
Aug 13, 2015
Shock and dismay as the EU allows a new bee-killing insecticide
Press Release Shock and dismay as the EU allows a new bee-killing insecticide When would policymakers learn from past decisions? On...
Jun 23, 2015
Pesticide cocktails found in puddles on Austrian farmland endanger bees
One in four puddles sampled contained a cocktail of of thiacloprid and azole fungicides in dangerous combinations for bees. The risk to...
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