Media Release
Baseless Activist Campaigns and Secondary Boycotts Fuelled by Business Decisions
CropLife Australia, the national peak industry organisation for the plant science sector in Australia, has serious and deep concerns with the recent decision by some of Australia’s major retailers to remove home-gardening use insecticides containing neonicotinoids from shelves without any scientific or independent regulatory basis to such a decision. It appears to have been purely driven by baseless overseas activist campaigns. Australia has one of the healthiest and growing honeybee populations in the world[1] and…
