Brussels, 02/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - Dr Helen Thompson, the UK government's senior bee scientist at the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and an expert in the assessment of the risks that pesticides present for bees, is to leave her post to join Syngenta, a leading manufacturer of insecticides, on 1 September, the European Beekeeping Coordination announced on Thursday 1 August. Indignant at what it calls a massive conflict of interest, and given that Helen Thompson, as the UK's...