{"id":907,"date":"2013-08-02T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T10:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=907"},"modified":"2018-08-21T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T09:16:54","slug":"eu-pesticide-ban-comes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanbees.co.uk\/blog_1\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"EU pesticide ban comes in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2013\/apr\/29\/bee-harming-pesticides-banned-europe\">two year suspension on thee neonicitinoid pesticides<\/a> came into force yesterday across the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The commission proposed the suspension after the European Food Safety Agency concluded in January that thiamethoxam,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankenuk.me.uk\/k-aring-nken-no-2-uk.html\"> <\/a> clothianidin and imidacloprid posed an <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2013\/jan\/16\/insecticide-unacceptable-danger-bees\">unnacceptable risk to bees<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankenoutlet.me.uk\/fjallraven-kanken-big.html\"> <\/a> The three will be banned from use on flowering crops including oilseed rape,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochilas-kanken.com.es\/mochilas-fjallraven-kanken-mini.html\"> Mini<\/a> linseed, maize and sunflowers, upon which bees feed.<\/p>\n<p>What is vitally important is that over the next 24 months scientists are able to conduct and collate overwhelming evidence that demonstrates these chemicals &#8211; should be banned long-term for the health of our bees. It&#8217;s going to be a hard call given all the other assailants weakening our bees from parasites,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankensale.me.uk\/kanken-kids.html\"> <\/a> to poor nutrition and poor weather,   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fjallravenkankenoutlet.me.uk\/fjallraven-kanken-mini.html\"> Mini <\/a> and given the persistence of neonics in the environment. But with the farming and pesticide industry continuing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2013\/nov\/27\/wildlife-risk-ban-pesticide-bee-death-neonicotinoids\">lobby hard<\/a> against the ban (legal action by Bayer and Syngenta is pending), the scientists have to get their skates on, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two year suspension on thee neonicitinoid pesticides came into force yesterday across the European Union. 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