date:Feb 19, 2013
Syngenta has urged the EU to withdraw is plans to ban neoincotinoid pesticides for two years, saying that Brussels was wrong to blame them for bee deaths.
Syngenta described the European Food Safety Authority reports on the risk posed to bees by the pesticides as fundamentally flawed.
The European Commission has been using this flawed EFSA report to justify proposed restrictions on this technology, Syngenta's chief operating officer, John Atkin, said in a statement.
Last month the EFSA annou