Secret they didnt want to publicize something which would be damaging for the company i made the city by the end was to stop the debate so they could carry on making money with. These insecticides known as near nick is annoying to have earned billions from a company a case of placing an innings of about ethics zucchini by not months what isnt normal is breaking the last concealing facts your guess should wish all those of. How influential is the bay a group and to the authorities failed to exercise proper oversight. Lifeguard in southwest germany is a fertile region and home to plenty of canola and corn fields cost of car runs of beef on here. Hes. Passionate about what he does his babies are like part of a family where it rarely experienced any problems with pesticides until one spring day 12 years ago. And you passed had appeared in the rhine valley and was threatening to devastate the corn fields to save the harvest the authorities allowed the large scale use of near nicotine or its only annex as they are also now on. Call me up so i could see the farmer sowing his corn and from one moment to the next stop flying it was perfect weather the bees were out origin everything was wonderful but as the farmer sowed his seed everything stopped although these in their disappeared. Insecticide the seeds had been treated with resulted in a toxic dust cloud that killed 12000 b. Colonies in the region more than 500000000 being suffered an agonizing death. Flood the bit right 1st of benefit it was the world our worst case of be poisoning by legal means since be conservation began it was very frustrating and very emotional. It really got me down. Close look as though it got so bad that i couldnt drive over to the beehives anymore every time i got near i was met by the stench of decomposing beasts i just couldnt handle it anymore like stick occurred. During planting some of the red pesticide coaching the corn seeds rubbed off and was released into the environment. Dust will do whats that that was sown just in the might yes or corn seed stress with insecticide but on to the mask or cure it was all what happened. This is to order you see this red dust thats insecticide residue that is rubbed off the seeds and it was released into the air during planters in the orbital gulf and stop in the bees died instantly so what types of what if you been of the that was those that passed through the dust cloud yes. But the worst of it was that the dust settled on flowering plants so the remaining bee is then gathered contaminated pollen i mean you know the polak a summer home. Rather than being sprayed on to crops like traditional pesticides need an exam often applied in the form of the sea dressing the seed coated with insecticide is then drilled into the ground using a seed plant or the toxins are affected from the root to the entire plant as a grows making it i mean to pests both in the ground and the field. The stage about virgin birth investigated what had gone wrong and what i scar to the peak years amazement plane was placed on the mechanical seat planters. The Agriculture Ministry echoed bears official line saying that had the seeds been sewn correctly everything would have been fine and then eggs were nevertheless banned for use on call in germany theyre still committed for other crops they offered 2200000 euros in fast track 8 but only on one condition for the beekeepers. In return i shall seed all existing and future claims to compensation to the state of modern view to. The investigator the government of pardon burton back had suddenly become the mediation of the offer from bail was actually made by the Agriculture Department this long by the river bank or no bear it was state of body they wanted to buy their way out of like it was touted as an emergency aid for the beekeepers because of what they were just covering themselves so there was a real push to settle the matter quickly where they knew the bees had been poisoned otherwise it would have taken a lot longer to get the money to fish that many of the beekeepers accepted the compensation and bear was left alone the ban on the a negative noise in corn wasnt a problem as they were still approved for many other crops between 19022017 around 3700 tonnes of the agent was sold in germany alone and they and other manufacturers like syngenta supplied various nieuwendyk it annoyed to more than a 100 countries and billions of euros scientists accuse the producers of making money at the expense of the environment. Because studies show that me a negative noise actually impact entire ecosystems. Dutch toxicologists 10 tennis has spent years studying the substances sold by Companies Like they are. He believes near negative no into the most toxic insecticide ever produced we need 10 against every cannick in the netherlands even though he was undergoing treatment from a man you know when we saw him late last year he agreed to speak to us. You name youve. Seen vasilios nicotine noids are water soluble and relatively mobile in the ground. So when it rains they are easily washed into the ground water and runoff water. Zomi. This means they affect the whole environment and are also absorbed by wild flowers and plants via their roots. When does. The entire landscape becomes toxic for insects. Theres a group of them so its fair to assume that this will result in mass insect deaths will be injected and if the insects disappear the ecosystem collapses. Thats why this is an ecological armageddon we are destroying the whole of nature. Cantenna his belief that neo necks are the main cause of insect deaths around the world and that via the food chain theyre also responsible for the decline in the population of birds reptiles and amphibians and theres evidence that the harmful to humans too. So why are these insecticides still being sold. And 2018 the European Union did at least ban 3 of the 5 near naked to no its because of the threat to beings but france had already banned one products containing the toxins back in 1909 it took 19 years for the e. U. To catch up so why did the french authorities act so much earlier. And paris we need scientists sure mark bomb attack and beekeeper only family. They have instigated the 999. 00 ban. At the time being he was very experiencing mysterious dialysis for my term proved that any or negative no its produced by there was a plane when the results were made public and the beekeepers protested the company was swift to respond. Very quickly or started to exert pressure to get us to keep quiet in our example what they didnt want to be keepers causing problems it took in more tentative and they are pseudonym for libel laws they are i dont produce honey from sunflowers or canola and i was acting in my capacity as head of the National Union of people this is what they sold me as a private individual and i got your lawyer defended us and we wonder and bear chose not to appeal the ruling but i wasnt the only one here. The scientists also came under pressure the aim was to stop the debate so they can carry on making money when you he was and it was like what the french government was also a loaned by the mass speed deaths and had commissioned a study that says you know you will still do you think before we even started our research and go bare began using the Agriculture Ministry to try to impose its methods and threshold values on us so that wasnt a good start if you looked at then when we got our results they came into the lab to check my analysis and find any errors they were desperate to find a mistake people told me but i havent made any big event and because we had proven that it talks about penetration even the blossoms of the plant they were forced to accept our results when i later on i mentioned the pressure exerted by bayer to the french media that i can receive 2 letters from a beer lawyer one addressed to me personally and one to the head of my institute you know they wanted to use their influence to force me to keep my mouth shut if they expected me a scientist to hide my results in order to protect their sales. But yes it was legal best that easy but that wasnt his 1st brush with. Works for one of the Top Research Institutions in france it was back in the mid 1990 s. That he was commissioned by the french Agriculture Ministry to investigate the mass b. D. s. Suspicion had fallen or near nigga to know it 1st made by bayer called i made a cloak print. Says that at the request of the regional agricultural thirtys they employees were actively involved in the 1st study. The nomad people but i believe its normal for a company like bayer to be informed if one of its products is being investigated anymore so fake. Good to their feet but what absolutely isnt normal is when representatives of a Company Whose product is being assessed are not all of them determining details of the approach to be taken including the financing and even the publication of the final results youll bucky heap a headache sure youve done. There was certainly a lot of money at stake for bayer the investigation began. Bees were sent on the one hand to fields of sunflowers treated with me and they get annoyed on the other 2 untreated fields for control purposes at least thats what drama rama time and his colleagues were told. They were only supposed to analyze the fields containing the bayer pesticides but later they realized that the control fields were also contaminated with insecticides. They called the junkyard get you know we scientists complained when we realized that the control fields have been treated with fungus eyes and other insecticides you for he that they dont get it he did it just isnt normal for an experiment of this loving not thats all the kitty. Its a good but the Management Committee for the study ignored our complaints by order knew it legal to your that there could be could be a doubt seek a levy who can instead the results of this comparative study which we now know were worthless were taken as proof that a medical oprah is harmless for bees you could you eat what he said he. Suddenly bears insecticides appeared beyond suspicion any possibility of a ban had been dismissed for now at least. But dont want time and his colleagues at the institute then carried out their own study on behalf of the beekeepers this time it was not involved and the results were staggering. Them all play about history to give it you were able to prove that everything relevant to the bill is a big whether it was the corn the sunflowers the ball any nectar water who clean that everything was going to. Im unable to i mean yeah he knew and he could you know even if you look within the levels of toxins in the open countryside were so high that they were sufficient to either kill the b. S. Or at least cause grave long term problem is to carve she said. In 1909 france then banned the use of nearly get to know its but initially only for some plants that wasnt enough for the beekeepers. They wanted a blanket ban on all mere nicotine oits so i had the services of a paris lawyer but now before. He took up the case against pay and other manufacturers. Eventually it went to the considered town front his highest court for administrative cases and. Phone realize that companies had exploited weaknesses in the licensing systems to get their products on the market leagues dollar figure mothers european directives refer to whats known as the hazard quotient. This quotient is exceeded the manufacturer is obliged to carry out a field experiment under realistic conditions to prove that the product is not harmful. Didnt look at the. Head it was it that we discovered that this control experiment which was obligatory in order to gain approval it never took place. If the tests had been carried out as european regulations dictated it at least products will never have been authorized and ive read it if it did that we hope its in part thanks to ben no fools persistence that france became the 1st country in the world to ban the use of all media nicotine or it in 2018. In germany meanwhile they are continued to earn wealth from the insecticides minix were used on many different crops as a panacea for all pests. The discoveries and fronts didnt appear to bother the German Authorities even though beekeepers here complained of heavy losses but i hafe it was until recently president of the European Beekeepers Association he told us of his organizations relief when germany finally announced a study on the decline in big population but the relief was short lived just what we realized that the initiative only began once the threat was perceived of germany having to adopt the same stance as a plant from quantum there was clearly great concern that the insecticides could be banned here too. Was the industry looking to preempt that move. It would appear that that was the reason why bayh and another next maker syngenta took part in the study other hay figures soon realised something was very wrong you dont see our jobs and every year there was an annual report and every year the findings would go through the media. The role i might which causes honeybee deaths is really terrible but we found no crabs with pesticides and it was like a Public Relations coup for them obviously that we became increasingly critical of how the whole project was structured with the methods they were using when they wouldnt have found any link between. As decides in honeybee deaths anyway cunt is the one that abi other manics have nothing to do with the mass be deaths that is the apparent finding that defines Public Opinion might up until the disaster in brasco in 2008 the industry have put huff a 1000000 euros into the be monitoring project womens safety for not doing this project when you look at how the project was financed its pretty obvious im the one who pays the piper calls or the too many towing the german be monitoring project was financed almost entirely by the insecticide makers of. The Beekeepers Association walked out of the project in protest but by this point questions were also being raised about whether any are needed to know in time not just peace but other wildlife to. With come to me an expert tanika gardens where we meet spanish toxicologist Francisco Sanchez bio he conducted a major study on the annex that attracted global interest. So when you published your be in the beginning of this year what was the conclusion that we found that in this the countries where this has been studied which is mostly european americans but also countries around the world are going to see more japan 40 percent of the species of insects are declining and of those one 3rd of them are really climbing a rapidly and they are threatened with extinction. Eating he says near nick its annoying to play a key role in that trend and they dont just kill insects they damage entire ecosystems. By a proof that in japan where he studied irrigation rice fields oprah 2 year period. These ecosystems are home to minute water fleas known as daphnia as well as crayfish when japanese rice fish called my dhaka. One day the rice farmers noticed that much of this wildlife was dying apart from the water fleas the crayfish were especially hard hit a laboratory achieving university was asked to investigate the research is soon found the culprit the same near negative knowing that it killed the beings in frogs we know melissa of 7 very curiously in the middle of the wedding day in the measure course on st it was even that lovely where all absolutely all a 100 percent of the fish were contaminated with but it was on but our site and of course we put it down to the fact is that. The only go to night in here is the human system so its all species were sensitive to the insecticide except ducks. So the whole was then use of it so dufner was an anomaly and they are unfortunate factor. Is that this anomaly had been used as the reason to say that this is sickness i was say for the moment when he was a complete anomaly. The poison did not kill the tiny. But it is effectively exterminate much larger species that weaken their immune system so severely that they were easy prey for parasite. The results were indisputable or so such as by a thought but he hadnt reckoned with a form of bayer scientist who had actually come to develop me an x. The day i explained the resource or the 1st. Measure of course of studies to the whole group and to the faculty. At the end he just couldnt understand the resource in cells man hears me so whether you want to do with these results and i said well the 1st thing i want to do is to publish them because he sounds in nobility and he really in. Didnt know what to say he was speechless do you really want to publish it yes i think its important to let the world know whats happening but they wanted to keep it secret they didnt want to publicize sanity in which we will be done engine for the company. The toxicologist says the laboratory then terminated his contract but he published the result anyway. The events he witnessed indicate that at least one bear scientists knew right back in 2004 about the kind of devastation the new year look at a noise can cause an ecosystems. From our research its clear that bear tried for decades to prevent any kind of universal ban on me a negative noise. In front the company sought to intimidate beekeepers and scientists and played a leading role in a questionable study on b. Mortality that exonerated the insecticides. In germany insecticide makers funded have been monitoring project it led to the widespread belief that ne ne get annoyed had nothing to do with mass be deaths. And in japan it would appear bayer employees even sought to suppress the publication of a crucial study scientists and proven that the a negative noise were responsible for the collapse of entire ecosystems. So what does bear say to all these allegations that Research Results we spent weeks trying to communicate with the company and when denied entry to its premises. Bev representatives refused to talk to us on camera are written questions went unanswered instead the company criticized what it described as unfair treatment by the media and many sent us this general statement. That he remains convinced that the use of near nicotine noids is safe for humans and the environment provided they are used responsibly and in accordance with the instructions for use. In. Good to know its only kill pests were told. By a studys claim that not even long term use is harmful to be other insects or fish as for the allegation that bay employees sought to manipulate other studies no comment. We return to dutch toxicologist hank telecasts he spent years studying these pesticides during that time he discovered 2 studies carried out by they are the findings of which are astounding and one of best scientists describes the effects of the 1st near nica to knowledge of the nervous system of a species of fly these are facts of ascribed as irreversible. Amid a cloak produced the 1st highly effective insecticide that works on the principle of almost completely blocking receptors in a way that is virtually irreversible. One of the bay of studies was completed in 1901 so one year before the product was granted the right approval when tamikas confronted by it with these studies and was taken aback by the response. They are now claims that the blocking of the receptors in the nervous system is reversible so you still are contradicting themselves. If the effect is reversible it depends on the concentration and so you can define a threshold level or govern. If the market is irreversible you can find a threshold level and so the effect is cumulative zooms to work through clear. The virginal day of study is key because if the toxins remain in the nervous system that can lead to death even if the insects were only exposed to a small doubts so if they knew that why did the company take no action in your cloak regular in medical open alone generates annual turnover of nearly a 1000000000 euros think of stuff its so i think that led them to just claim something so they could keep selling this pesticide. And. If they consider the impact is substance has they would have had to take it off the market mark. We also asked the bear group about these studies carried out by it and scientists and once again the company declined to comment. Theres enough evidence to prove the dangers and the annex but authorities have either been slow to respond or taken no action at all if we take the European Union for example a look at how pesticides are authorized is highly revealing. First the active ingredient is approved you why is it the manufacturer can apply in any member state france was chosen for the 1st knee or negative. But only the manufacturers test the substance for toxicity and environmental impact. The authorities just do the paperwork. In germany best the federal office of Consumer Protection and food safety along with 3 other agencies none of them test products. So everything depends on studies carried out by the manufacturer as the European Beekeepers Association points out its a system that all too easy to manipulate. Those think on the manufacturers can intervene at all levels dont even get a say in how any prescribed tests are structured for tests that. They serve us done. Up until now its also been the case that the studies that a manufacturer commissioned or undertook remained a corporal see different times as he assured us while. The advantage for they couldnt be published on and damn it also steamed me so no one else could tell what the licensing authorities actually checked. We had to drop tot just matters that makes life easy for the authorities because no one can really question their decisions and try to recruit from as well as 10 its a very very convenient relationship between industry and regulatory authorities would you rather. To this day remains a distinctly secure system what if independent voters were to carry out tests prior to approval instead of these powerful Chemical Companies wed like to discuss this with a German Agriculture minister yulia kleck not for weeks we tried to get an interview when we finally got an appointment we were told that we couldnt use our camera and that the minister had no time for us instead we received a statement saying that the ministry was committed to continuing to develop the approval and licensing procedures on the basis of the latest developments in science and technology and yet an e. U. Directive aimed at tightening the approval regulations for pesticides has been stalled for years but germany among those standing in the way. Critics like french lawyer ben awful say its the result of successful nobby and by manufacturers like they are. Looking for but now youve just hit a lot we mustnt be naive object the goal and purpose of these companies is to make money with these products your supporters dont even know them are good and thats what they do with all means at their disposal if thats normal documents sort of quite enough. All of all circulate by not known what is a normal is breaking the law concealing facts playing for time. They knew dollar dont in order to prevent products that are harmful from being taken off the market would you be locals think you so nicely. Even though the evidence is clear near nicotine or to still one of the most widely used insecticides in the world. They are on the one hand has influenced scientific studies and intimidation and soon just critics while on the other lacks licensing rules and or thirtys who have ignored deeply troubling studies have prevented meaningful controls and meaningful changes will Mean Companies being monitored more closely and warnings he did. 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