Canada: Neonic use on seeds no danger to bees, report says
January 7, 2016
From: Chatham Daily News [Canada]
By Debora Van Brenk, The London Free Press
A long-awaited federal report on a controversial crop-seed pesticide says neonicotinoids don’t pose any risk to honeybees.
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But it states unequivocally, “No potential risk to bees was indicated for seed use.”
That sentence is a vindication to grain farmers, who have long defended their use of the pesticide as necessary to their livelihoods.
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