https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/180228

*Most uses of neonicotinoid pesticides represent a risk to wild bees and
honeybees, according to assessments published today by EFSA. The Authority
has updated its risk assessments of three neonicotinoids – clothianidin,
imidacloprid and thiamethoxam – that are currently subject to *
*restrictions* <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-708_en.htm> *in
the EU because of the threat they pose to bees. *

These new conclusions update those published in 2013, after which the
European Commission imposed controls on use of the substances.
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