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Friday, October 3, 2008

Bayer - in the News again!



http://www.NaturalNews.com/024362.html





German government researchers have concluded that a bestselling Bayer pesticide is responsible for the recent massive die-off of honeybees across the country's Baden-Württemberg region. In response, the government has banned an entire family of pesticides, fueling accusations that pesticides may be responsible for the current worldwide epidemic of honeybee die-offs.

Another article on 9/30/08 about Bayer and the pesticide, Clothianidin, and the effect it has on honeybees. Bayer CropScience blames the honeybee deaths on incorrect application of the pesticide.

A group of North Dakota beekeepers are suing Bayer alleging that imidacloprid was responsible for CCD in that state in 1995. One-third of North Dakota honeybees died that year after imidacloprid was applied to rapeseed there.

Does this mean the US will ban Clothianidin?