Not exact matches
Bayer's Board of Management has to be called to account
since the risks of neonicotinoids such as
imidacloprid and clothianidin have now been known for more than 10 years.
In France,
imidacloprid has been banned as a seed dressing for sunflowers
since 1999 and in 2003 was also banned as a sweet corn treatment.
Since 1991, Bayer has been producing the insecticide
imidacloprid, which is one of the best selling insecticides in the world, often used as seed - dressing for maize, sunflower, and rape.
«Bayer's Board of Management has to be called to account
since the risks of neonicotinoids such as
imidacloprid and clothianidin have now been known for more than 10 years,» says Philipp Mimkes, spokesman for the Coalition Against Bayer - Dangers.
Since patent protection for
imidacloprid has expired in most countries, Bayer in 2003 brought a similarly functionning successor product, clothianidin, onto the market, the coalition alleges.