Time to Ban Colony Collapse-Causing Chlothianidin!

A new study released by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has labeled the pesticide chlothianidin an "unacceptable" risk to honey bees.

The EFSA also described the single study on which the EPA based its approval as shoddy and unreliable.

Urge the EPA to heed the evidence in this study and ban chlothianidin now, instead of letting our precious honey bees die for five more years.

Fill out the fields below to ask the EPA to save honey bees by banning the use of clothianidin today.

Subject:

Your Letter:

Dr. Steven Bradbury, Director of the Office of Pesticide Programs, EPA:

I am writing with concerns about the role that neonicotinoid pesticides like clothianidin may play in the growing phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder and the threat that these massive honey bee die-offs pose to both the future of the species and to our food supply.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently released a study based on a risk assessment of neonicotinoids, including clothianidin, in regards to the risk they pose to bees. The report concluded that neonicotinoids ("neonics") pose an unacceptably high risk to bees. Additionally, the EFSA report concluded that the Bayer CropScience sponsored study which the EPA based their approval of clothianidin on was unreliable and flawed.

I urge you to place an immediate ban on the use of clothianidin and other neonicotinoid pesticides and insecticide-producing genetically engineered crops to save America's honey bees from extinction.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.

Dr. Steven Bradbury

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pesticide Progra

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