Pesticide Action Network North America

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five autonomous PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society.

Europe restricts pesticides blamed for bee deaths

Apr 292013
 
 Features
Beekeeper

Scientific evidence mounts that neonictinoid toxins devastate hives.

from PANNA, Pesticide Action Network North America

WASHINGTON DC, April 29, 2013 — In a historic vote earlier today, the European Union created continent-wide restrictions on the use of bee-harming pesticides. Despite pesticide industry influence, a majority of countries voted to place a two year restriction on three neonicotinoid products linked to a wide-range of harms to honey bees, namely: clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam.

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