The EPA's Pollinator Risk Assessment Guidance is part of a long-term strategy to advance the science of assessing the risks posed by pesticides to bees, giving risk managers the means to further improve pollinator protection in our regulatory decisions. Among other things, the EPA anticipates the guidance will allow the Agency to assess effects from systemic pesticides quantitatively on individual bees as well as on bee colonies. This guidance is an outgrowth of the 2012 FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting on Risk Assessment for Bees.

• Guidance for Assessing Pesticide Risks to Bees (PDF)(59 pp, 2 MB)
• Guidance on Exposure and Effects Testing for Assessing Risks to Bees (PDF)(44 pp, 1 MB)
• Process for Requiring Exposure and Effects Testing for Assessing Risks to Bees during Registration and Registration Review (PDF)(26 pp, 394 K)