Company’s products to tackle bee crisis

AN Irish company has been launched offering breakthrough food additives to help tackle the colony collapse disorder crisis facing the global bee population.

Beemune emerged following two years research at NUI Maynooth that has helped create a product range to help counter the massive loss of the commercial global bee population, 66% of which was wiped out in 2007.

That loss has huge implications for the €500 billion global food crop industry of which 40% relies on bee pollination to germinate and grow.