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Encouraging EU Member States to fully implement the EFSA Guidance Document for the risk assessment o
The implementation of the EFSA Guidance Document (GD) for the risk assessment of plant protection products (PPP) on bees is being...
Dec 4, 2013
Doors keep revolving: government bee scientist joins pesticide industry
Press release, Brussels, 1.08.2013 - It has been announced that Dr. Helen Thompson, the UK government’s senior Bee Scientist at the Food...
Aug 1, 2013
Facts and figures for an informed opinion on fipronil
-Report- The review of the risk assessment of fipronil revealed several concerns for bees. As for neonicotinoids the EU Commission has...
Feb 10, 2013
EFSA report: THE IMPACT OF PESTICIDES ON BEES
On May 23rd the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) published its scientific opinion on how pesticide-risk for bees should be assessed....
May 25, 2012
Environmental Risk Assessment - State of play and future proposals for the bees
-Position- This document intends to analyze the existing guidelines for the "Environmental Risk Assessment" (ERA) of pesticides on bees....
Nov 19, 2010
Environmental Risk Assessment of EPPO based on a mistake-Letter to DEFRA
After a careful reading of one DEFRA (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK) research project final report a...
Sep 14, 2010
Environmental Risk Assessment for Honeybees State of play and Future Proposals
Until the early 1990s plant protection products (PPPs) were usually sprayed externally over plants, to kill insect pests; this posed the...
Mar 18, 2010
Environmental Risk Assessment for Honeybees State of play and Future Proposals
Introduction Until the early 1990s plant protection products (PPPs) were usually sprayed externally over plants, to kill insect pests;...
Mar 18, 2010
Is the future of bees in the hands of the pesticide lobby?
-Position- European Commission and EPPO allow corporations to shape the pesticide rules Bees and other pollinating insect numbers are...
Feb 11, 2010
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