Apr 6, 2015
EPA not likely to approve new uses for neonicotinoids

EPA has sent letters to registrants of neonicotinoid pesticides with outdoor uses informing them that the agency will likely not be in a position to approve most applications for new uses of these chemicals until new bee data have been submitted and pollinator risk assessments are complete.

The letters reiterate that EPA has required new bee safety studies for its ongoing registration review process for the neonicotinoid pesticides, and that the agency must complete its new pollinator risk assessments, which are based, in part, on the new data, before it will likely be able to make regulatory decisions on imidacloprid, clothianidin, thiamethoxam and dinotefuran that would expand the current uses of these pesticides.

Read the letter here.




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