EPA Seeking To Codify New Tests For Reducing Pesticides' Risks To Bees

May 23, 2016
EPA has identified new tests it plans to codify by 2017 to support the agency's Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) reviews of pesticides' risks to bees as part of a broad federal effort to improve honey bee health, despite industry concerns that there are inadequate guidelines and laboratories for some of the tests. EPA announced in September 2015 that it is crafting a rule to codify new data requirements for pesticide registrations to ensure substances do not pose...


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