Okay I work within the agrochemical trade and I may give a bit extra nuance to this.
It is not authorised to be used for eternity, not is it for all crop varieties – it is for sugar beet, for one 12 months, as an emergency authorisation to cope with a virus vectored by aphid pests (which, right here, the neonic is getting used to focus on). These types of emergency authorisations are inclined to occur when there is a significantly unhealthy pest/plant pathogen outbreak, and there is not deemed to be a suitably efficient different management for a pest (both as a result of we’ve not developed one but or beforehand efficient remedies have develop into ineffective as resistance has developed among the many goal pest).
Moreover, sugar beet as a crop just isn’t enticing to pollinators, which significantly reduces the direct publicity to bees. If we had been speaking a few flowering crop that was enticing to bees/pollinators, I doubt this might ever be authorised. This is not to say there are not any considerations in any way, as there’s nonetheless going to be a non-zero quantity of oblique publicity or off-target mud drift whereas sowing seeds (though that is nonetheless much less drift than with a foliar spray).
Due to this fact even if you happen to nonetheless disagree with the authorised use, hopefully you’ll be able to at the least see their reasoning – much less danger as it isn’t a pretty crop to pollinators, and excessive necessity given the emergency. The problem in rising crops with out *some* form of efficient pest management product (be {that a} chemical or in any other case) is far tougher than the general public tends to consider.