date:Jul 17, 2013
ection division.
In a vote on Tuesday in the EU's standing committee on the food chain and animal health (SCFCAH), the ban was backed by 23 member states, with three abstentions. Spain and Romania - where fipronil is used commercially - opposed the measures.
Scientists are divided on the part played by pesticides such as neonicotinoids in the sharp decline in bee numbers in Europe in recent years - a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder.
The European Commission says pesticides are one