Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/11/16


Few people are aware of the North Carolina Pesticide Board, a board established in the 1970s under legislation that seeks to control the use of insecticides in the environment. But many in North Carolina may be affected by how well this obscure panel assesses the hazards posed by relatively new and supposedly safer insecticides that use a class of chemicals known as neonicotinoids.

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