France threatens to ban Syngenta pesticide in bee link

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France's new farm minister, Stephane Le Foil, has announced his country's plans to ban a pesticide made by Swiss-based agricultural research firm Syngenta, after scientists claimed it could pose a danger to bee populations. France now intends to withdraw the permit of the Cruiser OSR pesticide, used for coating rapeseed, pending a two-week period during which Syngenta can submit its own evidence. "I have warned the group that sells Cruiser that I envisage withdrawing the licence to market," Le Foil said after the country's health and safety agency, the National Food, Environment and Work Safety Agency (ANSES), issued a report on the pesticide.