As part of EPA's ongoing effort to protect pollinators, the Agency sent letters to registrants of neonicotinoid pesticides with outdoor uses informing them that EPA will likely not be in a position to approve most applications for new uses of these chemicals until new bee data have been submitted and pollinator risk assessments are complete. The letters reiterate that the EPA has required new bee safety studies for its ongoing registration review process for the neonicotinoid pesticides, and that the Agency must complete its new pollinator risk assessments, which are based, in part, on the new data, before it will likely be able to make regulatory decisions on imidacloprid, clothianidin, thiamethoxam, and dinotefuran that would expand the current uses of these pesticides.

Read the letter that was sent to individual registrants of neonicotinoid pesticides with outdoor uses:

• April 2015 Letter to Registrants Announcing New Process for Handling New Registrations of Neonicotinoids (PDF)(3 pp, 523 K)