Pesticide

SUBOTICA - US Ambassador Michael Kirby presented the Public Health Institute in Subotica, northern Serbia, on Tuesday with new laboratory equipment that will allow testing and certification of local agricultural produce according to European standards.

A new study by the environmental protection group Greenpeace has shown that the pollen collected by European bees contains up to 17 different pesticides, with checks on 10 pollen samples from beehives in Greece revealing seven of the chemicals.