The Monsanto company – now acquired by Bayer – has been accused of ghostwriting articles within peer review literature, with the goal of using influential names to front its content in defence of the herbicide Roundup. Here, I conduct a detailed analysis of three Monsanto review articles and ...
Monsanto Company 06-CR-166U Page 56 of 262 CBI Deleted Version V. Genetic Analysis Characterization of the DNA insert in MON 89034 was conducted by Southern blot analyses, PCR, and DNA sequencing. The results demonstrated that MON 89034 contains a single functional copy of cry1A.105 and cry...
Thursday’s decision follows a series of legal setbacks for the company since it acquired Monsanto.Two juriesin the U.S. have now ruled in favor of plaintiffs claiming thatglyphosate, the active ingredient in the company’sRoundupweedkiller, caused them to developcancer. There are more than 10...
appreciates Roundup Ready soybean seed. He purchased Roundup Ready each year, from a company affiliated with Monsanto, for his first crop of the season. In accord with the agreement just described, he used all of that seed for planting, and sold his entire crop to a grain elevator (which t...
The Monsanto Company (/m ɒ n ˈ s æ n t oʊ / ) was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Monsanto's best known product is Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide, developed in the 1970s. Later ...
A Bloomberg Intelligence analysis earlier this month estimated that more than a quarter of the group’s legal reserves of $3.85 billion at the end of March were for various Credit Suisse cases in the US. UBS also had $2 billion in contingent liabilities relating to litigation, regulatory and ...
Yet in a little more than a decade, the company has sought to shed its polluted past and morph into something much different and more far-reaching—an “agricultural company” dedicated to making the world “a better place for future generations.” Still, more than one Web log claims to ...
Glyphosate was introduced by the company in the 1970ies. Even before Monsanto developed the genetically-engineered glyphosate-resistant RoundUp-Ready crops of corn and soy, the herbicide already had a huge market. It was sprayed everywhere to efficiently exterminate weeds, and in agriculture it was ...
Scientific Opinion on the annual Post-Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM) report from BASF Plant Science Company GmbH on the cultivation of genetically modified potato EH92-527-1 in 2010. EFSA Journal 2012;10(2):2558, 38 pp. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2558 EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified ...
”Monsanto maintains a dominant position in the marketplace byacquiring smaller competitors and merging with other companies. Last year, the department of Justice agreed to allow Monsanto to acquire Delta & Pine Land Company, giving it a 90 percent share of the transgenic cotton seed market.The ...