Hi David and All:

>I'm not going to engage in an iterative point-counterpoint debate of the
>non-science issues.  My intent in posting here is to provide information
>that otherwise hasn't been brought out.  BEE-L readers can read the
>referenced documents for themselves and make up their own minds.

If you are intending to provide information not previously brought out, then
perhaps you could tell us how we could access the study which was provided
to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) of Canada regarding the half
life of imidacloprid in Prince Edward Island soils.  When I asked PMRA for
the study, they refused to provide it.  When I contacted the Canadian Access
to Information commissioner he said that he could not force the PMRA to
release the information, because although it was submitted to PMRA by Bayer
to satisfy conditions relating to the initial emergency registration in PEI,
it was still "owned" by Bayer, because they had funded the research.

From conversations with Velden Sorenson and Robert Steffens I have some
information about that study, but would really like to see the results
published, so we could discuss the "science", rather than opinion.

Still look forward to some commitment from Bayer to finish analyzing the
samples of Jim Kemp which would bear directly upon the matter you are
addressing in this post, the amount of imidacloprid which remains active in
the soil in succeeding years.

Regards,
Stan Sandler

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