EPA Denies Push To Regulate Pesticide Mixtures Due To Insufficient Data

July 6, 2015
EPA officials say they lack scientific data to support regulatory restrictions on pesticide mixtures to protect bees, rejecting a push from a beekeepers' coalition that has argued chemical mixtures in applicators' tanks pose risks to bees through synergistic effects even when individual ingredients are not considered harmful. EPA has requested comment on potential risks from tank mixes as part of its solicitation of public input on the agency's May 28 proposal to reduce bees' exposures to acutely-toxic pesticides, though officials...


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