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["Brigette Leach" <afhg AT ctsmail.net>]

Leigh,

This is not a tone I care to see on the list. It is easy to disagree 
respectfully, and I don't read this as being respectful.

RIchard, you need to go back to logic 101.  Let me say it simply for
> you this time so you don't get confused and wrongly paraphrase what I 
> wrote.

Brigette


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leigh Hauter" <bullrunfarm AT hughes.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Bayer and EPA break the law


> RIchard, you need to go back to logic 101.  Let me say it simply for you 
> this time so you don't get confused and wrongly paraphrase what I wrote.
>
>  Bayer is bending if not breaking the law.
>
> Eight years ago Bayer was supposed to successfully field test Poncho 
> (Clothianidin) to show it could be safely used without endangering honey 
> bee colonies.
>
> Bayer's product failed the simple field tests.
>
> By law,  if Bayer's product failed the field test it doesn't get a license 
> to distribute its product.  That's the law.
>
> Instead of following the law and refusing to license Poncho, the Bush 
> Administration's EPA gave Bayer a second chance and while they waited for 
> Bayer to re-conduct the test it issued a temporary license.
>
> Now, here we are, eight years later and Bayer has still not conducted the 
> basic test (if it has the product must not have passed because no one has 
> been told), it still hasn't proven that its product can be safely used 
> without hurting honey bee colonies.
>
> The American Federation of Beekeepers as well as the National Honey Bee 
> Advisory Board (an elected body of professional beekeepers) are saying 
> enough is enough. They are calling on the government to issue Bayer an 
> immediate stop-use order.
>
> The EPA had the power to pull the temporary license.  Pull it now until 
> Bayer is able to conduct the test they should have conducted eight years 
> ago.
>
> Also, before Bayer is allowed to put their product back on the market it 
> must redesign its field studies (the ones it couldn't pass) to satisfy the 
> EPA staff's charge that the original studies were insufficiently rigorous 
> to test whether clothianidin contributes to CCD in a real-world scenario. 
> (the previous test evaluated the wrong crop, over an insufficient time 
> period and with inadequate controls).
>
> Richard,  so you don't get confused with what I'm saying let me give you a 
> really brief summary
>
> Clothianidin has not yet, after eight years, passed the tests to be 
> licensed as an insecticide. Immediately pull Clothianidin 'temporary' 
> license and keep it off the market until it can be proven to be safe for 
> honey bee colonies.
>
>
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