Have we seen this report before?


http://www.thecre.com/oira_pd/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bees-PollinatorTaskForceMemorandum.pdf-ff.pdf#page=2&zoom=auto,-169,550

or tinyurl
*http://tinyurl.com/kzgbpma <http://tinyurl.com/kzgbpma>*

*Center for Regulatory Effectiveness1601 Connecticut Avenue, NWWashington,
DC 20009Tel: (202) 265-2383 Fax: (202) [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> www.TheCRE.com <http://www.TheCRE.com>September 24,
2014To: The Honorable Thomas James Vilsack, Co-Chair Pollinator Health Task
ForceThe Honorable Regina A. McCarthy, Co-Chair Pollinator Health Task
Forcecc: Richard Aucoin, Executive Director, Pest Management Regulatory
Agency/Health CanadaJeff Leal, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs, OntarioKareena Arthy, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Pests
and Veterinary Medicines AuthorityScott Gallacher, Deputy Director General,
Regulation & Assurance, New ZealandBernhard Url, Executive Director,
European Food Safety AuthorityLiz McIntosh, DEFRA Policy Lead - National
Pollinator StrategyNature, Landscape and Outdoor Recreation Branch, Welsh
GovernmentVolney Zanardi Junior, President of IBAMAFrom: Jim TozziSubject:
Is Varroa Destructor or Neonicotinoid Pesticides Responsible for Bee Health
Decline? President Obama has charged the Pollinator Health Task Force with
preparing a Research Action Plan to "determine the relative contributions
of, and mitigation strategies for, different stressors leading to species
declines and colony collapse disorder...." Although many factors ranging
from nutrition to genetics to pathogens have been studied to assess whether
or to what extent they contribute to bee health decline, the two factors
which have received the most attention are the varroa destructor mite and
the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids.*

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