Hearing on pollinator health comes as EPA, USDA spar
May 11, 2015
From: E&E Publishing
Tiffany Stecker, E&E reporter
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In the letter, Johansson states that USDA staff had specifically asked EPA to undertake a full risk assessment that would have weighed the benefits of neonicotinoid seed treatments for all crops, not just soybeans.
“Instead, EPA released the report regarding soybean seed treatment without additional consideration of other crops or to USDA cautions about releasing a premature assessment of the costs and benefits of such seed treatments,” he wrote.
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