Bayer AG and Syngenta AG face more pressure over crop chemicals suspected in bee-deaths as retailers including Sainsbury's, the UK’s third largest supermarket chain, said they’re looking into the matter.
“At present we have not banned the use of neonicotinoids in plant protection products but we are monitoring the situation very closely,” a Sainsbury’s spokesman said yesterday by e- mail.
Retailer Marks & Spencer is reviewing its position on the pesticides and will announce an update in about a month, a spokesperson said yesterday. Tesco, the U.K.’s biggest grocer, will be guided by government advice, a spokesperson said.
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Got a pot of Scott's 'Intercept' at work (bought in 2008) which specifically warns that neonicotinoids are harmful to bees. So Scott's knew the risks and were warning about them five years ago, but other companies are denying the link...? Bayer's 'Provado' doesn't mention any effects on any other insects at all!
You do wonder what 'influence' some of the bigger chemical companies had, and have.