The herbicide glyphosate and the neonicotinoid acetamiprid to have low toxicity levels for honey bees under actual field conditions, researchers have discovered. They also found sulfoxaflor to be near ...

PARIS — Even from his seaside holiday retreat at the Fort de Brégançon, President Emmanuel Macron will be closely watching a key court ruling on a controversial pesticide on Thursday. The question of ...

The fruit and vegetables that Americans bring home and cook up for their families are often laced with pest-killing chemicals known as acetamiprid and imidacloprid, members of the neonicotinoid class.

The decision infuriated farmers and France's far right and conservative parties but was welcome by environmentalists and left-wing parties. The law would have permitted the return of acetamiprid -- a ...

The ruling is a blow to the French farm lobby, with Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard noting farmers in other EU countries can continue to use acetamiprid. France’s constitutional court Thursday ...

A reduction in the legal limits for residues of the insecticide acetamiprid in food has sparked strong opposition from European farmers, who fear losses in the production of many fruits and vegetables ...

A number of French health experts wrote an open letter in Le Monde Tuesday calling on the French government not to reintroduce the bee-killing pesticide acetamiprid, warning that it could also be ...

A view of the Constitutional Council ahead of a ruling on the Duplomb law, in Paris France, August 7, 2025. STEPHANIE LECOCQ / REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron signed into law a modified bill ...

PARIS - More than a million people had by July 20 signed a petition urging the French government to ditch a law allowing the reintroduction of a banned pesticide known to kill bees. The so-called ...