“The approval to use this bee-killing pesticide is scandalous,” said Craig Bennett, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts. “The government has outlined ambitions to restore nature and reverse declines of precious wildlife. But at the same time it is giving a green light to use a highly toxic chemical that could harm pollinating insects and pollute soils and rivers.”
“We need to restore the natural world and gradually wean ourselves off using chemicals in agriculture,” he said. “It’s time the government listened to their own experts who have said they cannot support the use of this pesticide as it’s simply too dangerous.”
Banned insecticide given emergency exemption
Banned insecticide given emergency exemption
The UK government has given an 'emergency exemption' to the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam following an application by British Sugar to use it on sugar beet. The Guardian reports that it's to control aphids which spread virus yellows, a disease that affects sugar beet and a range of weeds. Environmental groups are not happy.
it's okay to say "I don't know"
Re: Banned insecticide given emergency exemption
Shouldn't this go in the brexit benefits thread. Taking back control: blue passports & dead bees. It's what they voted for.Fishnut wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 9:41 pmThe UK government has given an 'emergency exemption' to the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam following an application by British Sugar to use it on sugar beet. The Guardian reports that it's to control aphids which spread virus yellows, a disease that affects sugar beet and a range of weeds. Environmental groups are not happy.
“The approval to use this bee-killing pesticide is scandalous,” said Craig Bennett, chief executive of The Wildlife Trusts. “The government has outlined ambitions to restore nature and reverse declines of precious wildlife. But at the same time it is giving a green light to use a highly toxic chemical that could harm pollinating insects and pollute soils and rivers.”
“We need to restore the natural world and gradually wean ourselves off using chemicals in agriculture,” he said. “It’s time the government listened to their own experts who have said they cannot support the use of this pesticide as it’s simply too dangerous.”
Re: Banned insecticide given emergency exemption
Re: Banned insecticide given emergency exemption
In other insecticide news:
There are arguments that the risk-benefit balance of these substances may be different in different countries, so this is not necessarily a bad thing. But I'd like to see a proper case made for that, and I'm not convinced that the importing countries have a fully robust regulatory system (given that most western countries don't).The United Kingdom exported thousands of tonnes of banned pesticides in 2020, with shipments including a wider range of toxic substances than ever previously revealed, a new Unearthed and Public Eye investigation has found.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which regulates UK exports of prohibited chemicals, has confirmed that in that year British exporters shipped pesticide products overseas containing 12,240 tonnes of chemicals banned from use in this country’s own fields...
The UK exported seven different agrochemicals in 2020 the use of which is banned in UK agriculture – the weedkillers paraquat, diquat, and asulam, the insecticides imidacloprid and cyhalothrin, and the fungicides chlorothalonil and propiconazole;