The options proposed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for the revision of its 2013 guidance document on pesticide risk assessment for bees – and in particular option 2, which has the support of a majority of Member States – are unacceptable, warned MEPs on the European Parliament's Environment Committee on Thursday 1 October.
Representatives of the European Commission and EFSA were accused of playing into the hands of the pesticide industry and torpedoing current bee...