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    THE Grapevine

    Aug 08, 2018 3 minutes

    EU BANS OUTDOOR USE OF BEE-HARMING PESTICIDES

    The EU announced in April this year that it will expand measures, first put in place in 2013, to further protect honeybees and other pollinators from exposure to the neonicotinoid pesticides, or neonics, such as imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam.

    All outdoor use of these three pesticides will be banned under the new measure and the neonics in question will be permitted for use only inside permanent greenhouses where no contact with bees is

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