Imidacloprid:
ARDS-Imidacloprid
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Imidacloprid is registered in Australia for use on cotton, cereals,
stone and pome ...
www.apvma.gov.au/residues/ARDS-imidacloprid.shtml - 76k
Press Release, May 21, 2008
Coalition against BAYER Dangers (Germany)
Mass death of bees in Germany: Pesticide approvals suspended
Bayer has to take Gaucho and Poncho from the market worldwide
The German Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has
ordered the immediate suspension of the approval for eight seed
treatment products due to the mass death of bees in Germany's
Baden-Wuerttemberg state. The suspended products are: Antarc
(ingredient: imidacloprid; produced by Bayer), Chinook (imidacloprid;
Bayer), Cruiser (thiamethoxam; Syngenta), Elado (clothianidin; Bayer),
Faibel (imidacloprid; Bayer), Mesurol (methiocarb; Bayer) and Poncho
(clothianidin; Bayer). According to the German Research Centre for
Cultivated Plants 29 out of 30 dead bees it had examined had been
killed by contact with clothianidin. Also wild bees and other insects
are suffering from a significant loss of population.
We have been pointing on the risks of neonicotinoids such as
imidacloprid and clothianidin for almost ten years now. With an annual
turn-over of nearly 800 million Euro (1.25 billion US dollar)
imidacloprid and clothianidin are among Bayer's most im****tant
products. This is the reason why Bayer, despite serious environmental
damage, is fighting against any application prohibitions, says Philipp
Mimkes, speaker of the Coalition against BAYER-dangers. The Coalition
demands that Bayer withdraw all neonicotinoids from the market
worldwide.
Bayer is the worldmarket leader for pesticides. With sales of 556
million Euro in 2007, imidacloprid is Bayer4s best selling pesticide
product. In Germany imidacloprid is used under the brand names Gaucho,
Antarc and Chinook, primarily during the cultivation of rape,
sugar-beet and corn.
It's a real bee emergency, said Manfred Hederer, president of the
German Professional Beekeeper's Association. Fifty to 60 percent of
the bees have died on average, and some beekeepers have lost all their
hives. Beekeepers and agricultural officials in Italy, France and
Holland all noticed similar phenomena in their fields when planting
began a few weeks ago.
In France most applications of imidacloprid were already banned in
1999. In 2003 the Comiti Scientifique et Technique, convened by the
French government, declared that the treatment of seeds with
imidacloprid produces a significant risk for bees. Only a few months
ago Bayer4s application for clothianidin was rejected by French
authorities.
Clothianidin is a non-selective poison. According to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's fact sheet 'clothianidin is highly
toxic to honey bees.' Seeds are treated with clothianidin in advance
or sprayed with it while in the field, and the insecticide can also be
blown onto other crops. The chemical is often sprayed on corn fields
during the spring planting to create a protective film on cornfields.
See also:
7 Press Release of the Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (German):
www.jki.bund.de/cln_044/nn_813794/DE/pressestelle/Presseinfos/2008/1605__BienensterbenClothianidin.html__nnn=true
7 Protection of Bees: Open Letter to EU Commissioner of Health
7 Bee-keepers and environmental groups demand prohibition of pesticide
"Gaucho"
7 French Institutes Finds Imidaproclid Turning Up in Wide Range of
Crops
* 2003 re****t from the "Comiti Scientifique et Technique de lEtude
Multifactorielle des Troubles des Abeilles"
http://agriculture.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/rap****tfin.pdf
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