Better than the US standard of letting untested genes or chemicals loose on the population and testing/regulating only when a problem starts popping up, no?
How many scientific studies does it take to convince a politician?
As far as neonicotinamides, they are a very useful group of pesticides. Safe for applicators, effective, long lasting. I use them quite often to control pests in the university greenhouses I manage. I think the jury is still out on their role in bee colony collapses. Even if they are not implicated, there is a lot of evidence that they do kill insect pollinators
-You can have politicians that try to appeal ill-informed general population motivated by fear. We would call this, the European way.
-You can have politicians that try to appeal well informed lobbyist motivated by greed. We will call this the American Way.
Or, the even more cynical, and probably more realistic option, you can have both: politicians that try to eat their cake and have it too.