studies on pesticide safety that come out after a pesticide is sn the markeket may not be evaluatd by epa ununtil a peicicide comes up for reviview, a process that can take longs 15 y yea. farmers like drew stabler of laytonsville, maryland say that neonics can be used safely and are indispensable to their business. >> well, i think that any product that's on the mararket s been tested and proven to do a job, a and we haveaith in that process. myself as a farmer, i've been farming 50, 60 years. i've been lucky enough to make a living doing what i like to do. and wtry to usese everything that's been tested and approved and recommended at certain times and how much. we do that both for the benenefit of the environment and the benefit of our pocketbook. you keep hearing about extra people in the world that need to be fed, so we can't back off on what our proroductin abilitieies are. we feel we have to keep improving our production abilities. and some of these products will contribute too that. >> the reason thatat we're worod about neonicototinoids specificalally is because e th'e being used at an u