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Dear Commissioner Kyriakides,
First of all, we wished to thank you for moving forward with the ban on Sulfoxaflor. We consider the environment will be safer for insects without this chemical. We would like to bring to your attention the recent publication of a new scientific study1 demonstrating the presence of neonicotinoid insecticide residues in children cerebrospinal fluids (CSFs). This study identifies that 100% of the children present at least one neonicotinoid insecticide residue in their CSF, while 64% of the CSF samples contain at least 2 neonicotinoids. Furthermore, 93% of the samples contain the metabolite N-desmethyl-acetamiprid.