France is banning all neonicitinoids and its ban includes all outdoor and indoor uses.
Canada’s bans, to take full effect in three years, allow continued controlled use in greenhouses.
In France beekeepers and environmentalists praised the new policy, but cereal and sugar beet farmers warn it could leave them defenceless in protecting valuable crops against harmful insects.
By enforcing the blanket ban, France is going further than the European Union, which voted to outlaw the use of three neonicotinoids – clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam – in crop fields starting on December 19.
France has banned these three plus thiacloprid and acetamiprid.
