http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/factsheets/spirotetramat.pdf

It is interesting that all of the supporting research reports are done by 
Bayer.  Are they published anywhere or, like the soil study on PEI for 
imidacloprid half life, are they "proprietary information" that the public 
cannot even access through "access to information legislation" (which is 
something we have in Canada)?

How does it work in the US?  When Bayer submits the reports to EPA for a 
registration,  are they then accessible somewhere?   I thought that the idea 
of publishing scientific papers was that someone could repeat the 
experiments for INDEPENDENT verification.  It does not seem that EPA 
repeated much of anything, except some analytical procedures.

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