Please boycott pharmed salmon – fish farmers in Norway are about to deploy 'Ectosan Vet' (the banned neonicotinoid insecticide Imidacloprid) in their toxic war against parasitic lice @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner @salmonfarming1 https://t.co/ZjXD0OWcLG#Boycott #Pharmed #Salmon
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021
Fish Farming Expert reported (3 August 2021):
Norway deploys the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in salmon farms – please stop the use of this toxic chemical in Scotland! https://t.co/MaI4ArWOyF@ScottishEPA @TerryAHearn @nature_scot @vmdgovuk @EMA_News @marinescotland @MairiMcAllan @MairiGougeon @ScotGovNetZero @scotgov pic.twitter.com/qNFdZr6gbP
— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021
Fish Farmer reported (3 August 2021):
The banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid has been cleared for commercial use in Norway after more than a decade of research & trials https://t.co/S1viPigd8o
Where's the environmental risk assessments? @ScottishEPA @Legemiddelinfo @kldep @miljotweets @WeAreBenchmark @FerdOwner pic.twitter.com/7ssWFjpb0V— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021
Benchmark wants "to support a more sustainable aquaculture industry & create a future where no chemicals are applied directly to the sea" https://t.co/S1viPigd8o
What quantity of toxic chemicals are currently discharged directly by salmon farms in Scotland? @SSPOsays @ScottishEPA— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) August 4, 2021
Read more via:
- The Ferret: "Watchdog helped pesticide firm avoid freedom of information"
- Toxic Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Collared by Legal Petition in US – are investors in Ectosan Vet/BMK08/D-10 Aquatic Blast feeling hot under the collar?
- Scottish Government backtracks on neonicotinoid use in salmon pharming: "there is no planned imminent approval of Imidacloprid"
- Dirty Secrets Exposed: FOI Disclosure by SEPA on Benchmark's Banned Neonicotinoid Ectosan/BMK08 (Imidacloprid)
- Salmon Pharming's 'Silent Spring' of the Sea
- "New weapon against salmon lice" reports Norwegian media (failing to mention Ectosan is the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid)
- Norway Approves Banned Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid for Use on Norwegian Salmon – Scotland, Chile & Canada Next In Firing Line!
- Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Dogged by Lawsuits, Bans & Deaths – Is Benchmark's BMK08 in the doghouse or will it be unleashed?
- Canadian field trials of the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid on salmon farms?
- Norwegian Environment Agency FOI reply lifts lid on banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
- Interferencia: "Salmon Farming – Norwegian company seeks to commercialize in Chile a pesticide banned by the EU for being 'very toxic' to aquatic life"
- Anyone for Norwegian Salmon Marinaded in the Banned Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (don't worry it's ASC-approved)?!
- "EU deals potential setback to Benchmark’s rollout of new sea lice treatment"
- Fish Farmer: "MEPs condemn new lice treatment: who's right" "
- "EU setback for novel lice treatment"
- Breaking News: Victory in Europe – Parliament votes against the use of the toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in farmed salmon!
- Fish Farming Expert: "Novel lice treatment threatened by European Parliament vote"
- Wave of European Opposition to Benchmark's Imidacloprid (BMK08) – the tide turns against neonicotinoids in salmon pharming!
- European Opposition to Neonicotinoid Contamination of Farmed Salmon – is BMK08 (Imidacloprid) dead in the water?
- The Guardian: "‘Novichok for insects’ may be approved for Scottish fish farms"
- Who are the toxic team lurking behind Benchmark's BMK08 (Imidacloprid) in Scottish salmon pharming?
- The Ferret: "Bee-killing pesticide treatment for fish farms backed by Scottish Government"
- Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon – Benchmark's magic trick making the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid disappear!
- Rumsfeldian Fish Philosophy – Things We Know We Know, Things We Now Know We Don't Know & Things We Don't Know We Don't Know About 'Scottish' Salmon!
- SEPA ordered by Commissioner to Disclose 'Commercially Confidential' Information on CleanTreat & BMK08 (Imidacloprid) by 7 June
- Warning: Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming "Clears Another Hurdle" With European MRL
- Warning: Imidacloprid Moves A Step Closer to Commercial Use in Salmon Farming
- Nasty Neonicotinoid Plagues Salmon Farming in 2021
- Toxic Neonicotinoid "Close to Commercial Launch" in Salmon Farming!
- New Science Dogs Approval of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid for Scottish Salmon!
- Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming?
- Secret Salmon – On the Trail of Imidacloprid Use in Scotland!
- British Wildlife: "Neonics in Salmon Farming – Alarm Bells Are Ringing"
- Caveat Chile – toxic neonicotinoid Imidacloprid (BMK08) coming soon!
- Toxic Politics – Meet the Scottish Government's Minister for Sinister Chemicals
- Imidacloprid Licensed for Use by Mowi in Loch Ailort?
- Further Scientific Opposition to Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
- Patent lifts lid on neonicotinoid use in salmon farming
- Horrible History: Imidacloprid Use in Salmon Farming
- Scientific Opposition to Neonicotinoid Use in Salmon Farming
- Backgrounder: "Imidacloprid – A Neonicotinoid Insecticide Toxic to Aquatic Life"
- BBC Farming Today on "Neonicotinoids in Salmon Farming"
- Sunday Times: "Outlawed insecticide may be used on Scottish salmon"
- FOI letter on Scientific Concerns re. Imidacloprid Use in Scottish Salmon Farming
- Scottish Greens "Deeply Concerned" at Mowi's Field Trial of Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid in Loch Ailort
- Letter to the Prince of Wales re. bee-killing Imidacloprid use at royal warrant holder Mowi
- Secret Trials: 'Royal' Salmon Doused with Bee-Killing Insecticide Imidacloprid?
- Follow the Salmoney – the Norwegian tobacco billionaire behind the Neonicotinoid Imidacloprid
- ENDS Report: "Calls for greater transparency over ‘toxic’ new fish farm product"
- Letter to SEPA: Please Come Clean on Imidacloprid!
- Letter to Scottish Ministers, SEPA & the VMD re. Imidacloprid
- FOI requests on Imidacloprid to SEPA, VMD & the Scottish Government
- Revealed: Toxic Neonicotinoid Insecticide Used to 'CleanTreat' Lousy Salmon
- Please Come Clean on BMK08!
- Sunday Times: "Official fears revealed over toxic threat of salmon trade"
- Cleaning Tox-Sick Scottish Salmon
- CleanTreat FOI Disclosures by the Scottish Government to Scottish Salmon Watch
- Media Backgrounder: Chemically Embalmed Scottish Salmon
- All is Not Well With Sick Scottish Salmon
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency told a firm wanting to start using a bee-killing chemical at fish farms to mark correspondence “confidential”— so that it wouldn’t have to be released in response to freedom of information requests. #FOIhttps://t.co/hIclBVFKop
— The Ferret (@FerretScot) July 19, 2021
Beware: ‘First Chile, then the world’: high hopes for novel lice treatment https://t.co/0oCgEM6Ubt
Will SalmoClinic use the banned neonicotinoid Imidacloprid? @WeAreBenchmark @SalmonChileAG @sernapesca @SalmonChile— Don Staniford (@TheGAAIA) September 29, 2021