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You can't find what you don't look for

Florida Department of Agriculture does not test for most pesticides and Herbicides

Here is a list of FDACS' pesticide testing methods.  

FDACS did not test for any of the poisons in the yellow during the pesticide investigation of Costa Honey Farm

 

From a trip to The Home Depot, we found 21 pesticides and herbicides that are toxic to bees (adult and or larvae) and FDACS DOES NOT test for.  

Isoxaben

Mecoprop- p potassium salt

B- cyfluthrin

3-phenoxybenzyl

cyclopropanecarboxylate

n- octylbicycloheptene dicarboximide

lambda- cyhalothrin

pyriproxyfen

zeta- cypermethrin

gamma- cyhalothrin

prallethrin

imiprothrin

lambda- cyhalthrin

Pyrethrins

metrofluthren

d- phenothrin

b- cycluthrin

sulfentrazone

penoxsulan

dimethylamine salt of mecoprop p

3ohcarbofuran

More poisons FDACS does not test for-

novaluron 

pyriproxyfen

iodosulfron- methylsodium

dicambia

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