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New Zealand is known for its pristine lands because of the aggressive measures it takes when it comes to protecting agriculture. In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host, June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald talk to New Zealand's very own John Hartnell a honeybee health advocate who also operates one of the largest exporting businesses that specialize in bee products.

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host June Stoyer talks to Tibor Szabo, the Vice-President of the Ontario Beekeeper's Association, about the latest efforts to ban neonicotinoids in Canada as well as a new petition to help the effort. Stay tuned! ©2013 The Organic View Radio Show.

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host, June Stoyer talks to President of the European Professional Beekeeper's Association, Walter Haefeker to discuss the recent news in Europe regarding the situation in Austria before and after the vote to ban neonicotinoids in the EU as well as the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recent risk assessment about Fipronil.

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host, June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald will be joined by fourth generation beekeeper Darren Cox , President of Cox Honey of Utah, LLC. To discuss the EPA's reformed Guidelines for Investigators of Pesticide Incidents Involving Bees which was recently released.

As we continue our special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", hosts June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald will be joined by Jeff Anderson the owner of California-Minnesota Honey farms, which is a commercial migratory beekeeping operation to discuss the new EPA guidelines for investigating bee incidents.

What does the future hold if there are no more commercial beekeepers with healthy bees to pollinate our crops? It is a reality Dr. Henk Tennekes predicted when he blew the whistle about neonicotinoids. What does the reality of hand pollination look like?

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald will be joined by Mark Emrich, the past President of the Olympia Beekeeper's Association in the state of Washington. He is currently the President of Washington State Beekeeper's Association.

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host, June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald will be joined by Sandra Romero, the Commissioner of the Board of Health, Thurston County in the state of Washington. Commissioner Romero will discuss recent efforts to protect pollinators by educating the public as well as efforts to restrict the use of neonicotinoids.

There has been a huge debate over the impact of Neonicotinoids, which are a class of systemic pesticides with a common mode of action that affects the central nervous system of insects, causing paralysis and death. Neonicotinoids are often applied as seed treatments which means coating the seeds before planting.

There is a great deal of concern that our honeybees do not have enough food to eat because of the amount of pesticides being used. However, most homeowners do not realize that their demand for pristine lawns and continuously flowering plants that have low to zero maintenance are a huge part of the problem.

Regardless of the fact that there is a tremendous global decline in the bee population there are still many areas where backyard beekeeping has been banned. The reason for the ban in many cases is mostly due to lack of knowledge about bees as well as fear of lawsuits.

This is a special encore segment of The Organic View Radio Show due to the great interest on my interview with Terrence Ingram without attribution. I hope this will give those of you who are sincerely interested in this situation, the opportunity to hear the original interview with Terry.

As we continue our special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host June Stoyer and special guest co-host Tom Theobald will be joined by Dutch toxicologist, Dr. Henk Tennekes to discuss his latest research, titled, "The molecular basis of simple relationships between exposure concentration and toxic effects with time."

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host, June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald talk to commercial beekeeper, Steve Ellis about an unusual bee mortality event due to corn planting. Steve Ellis owns the Old Mill Honey Company which operates roughly 2,300 hives of bees in Minnesota for honey production and pollination for crops in California.

Sulfoxaflor is a new systemic pesticide from the sulfamine family. While it is not a neonicotinoid, it is systemic pesticide that targets the same neural receptors as the neonicotinoids. Without any prior notice to beekeepers, the EPA announced in June 2012, that it would grant a section 18 (emergency permission to use an unregistered product) for use on cotton in four southern states: Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana.

On Monday, April 29, 2013, the European Union approved the decision to push forward the ban on three neonicotinoid pesticides ( imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam) across the entire continent. Although, in the United States, the EPA does not recognize that fact that there is adequate science to substantiate a ban much less restrict the use of neonicotinoids.

Today, Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), announced that U.S. regulatory authorities have approved the new insecticidal active ingredient, sulfoxaflor to be marketed in the U.S. as Transform® and Closer™. The U.S. registration, and the recent Canadian registration, are the result of a Global Joint Review which also includes Australia.

This is a discussion about the Honey Bee Health Report which was published in October of 2012 for the National Honey Bee Health Stakeholder Conference Steering Committee. The call features Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, US Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Bob Perciasepe, Acting Administrator, U.S.

In March 2013, the European Commission voted on a proposed a two-year suspension of neonicotinoids after the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) deemed their use an unacceptable risk. However, it failed to pass due to support from major nations such as the UK and Germany.

In this special series called "The Neonicotinoid View", host, June Stoyer, will be joined by special guest host, Tom Theobald to talk to Dr. Chensheng (Alex) Lu, Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology at Harvard, about his research on honeybees and neonicotinoids.

On March 21, 2013, a law suit was filed in Federal District Court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for its failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides.

In a document titled, "Evaluation of Canadian Bee Mortalities that Coincided with Corn Planting in Spring 2012", Health Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) reported some of the events of this historic crisis. "PMRA received a significant number of honeybee mortality reports from the provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario.

Recently, the European Commission proposed a two-year suspension on the use of three neonicotinoids after the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) deemed their use to be an unacceptable risk. The ban failed to achieve a weighted majority and therefore, was not passed.

Journalist and host, June Stoyer and special guest co-host, Tom Theobald explore the impact of neonicotinoids on pollinators and the environment.