Greenpeace report that Aldi Süd is the first big retailer in Europe to ban eight bee-harming pesticides from domestic fruits and vegetables produced for their markets.

The German company made it a requirement on 1st January 2016 for its suppliers to phase out the pesticides most harmful to bees, including some of the group of neonicotinoids, it said in a letter to Greenpeace Germany. The environmental organisation urges supermarkets to phase out hazardous pesticides in fruit and vegetable production and to support farmers to switch to ecological practices.

www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/2016/Greenpeace-campaign-bears-fruits-Aldi-Sud-bans-bee-harming-pesticides/

This is also reported in:

http://beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/2016/01/major-supermarket-bans-bee-toxic-pesticides-on-fruits-and-vegetables/