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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.
Jan 29, 2024 · A Pennsylvania jury handed down a $2.25 billion verdict against Monsanto and its parent company, Bayer, after determining its Roundup herbicide product caused a man’s cancer, the plaintiff’s ...
Jul 5, 2024 · Monsanto, American corporation that was a leading producer of chemical, agricultural, and biochemical products. After being acquired by Bayer in 2018, it ceased to exist as an entity. Learn more about Monsanto, including its history and legal troubles.
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Internal Monsanto emails show that the company closely followed the evolution of some of the articles and even edited passages. On Jan. 6, 2016, company official Heydens writes to Intertek about one of the papers: "I think you and I should talk about how that chapter gets completed, as it is not exactly what I was expecting." Two days later, in ano...
In January, Health Canada said that the "assertion of improper or misleading citations was disconcerting" in the Intertek panel papers. It did not alter the agency's final decision regarding continued registration of glyphosate. Health Canada also said it had access to "numerous individual studies and raw scientific data during its assessment of gl...
This was not the first time that Monsanto turned to Intertek to defend glyphosate. Cantox, purchased by Intertek in 2010, worked on a major glyphosate safety analysis in 1999, which concluded "Roundup herbicide does not pose a health risk to humans." The study would go on to be cited over 500 times in the academic literature. Once again, Monsanto's...
Internal documents reveal how Monsanto hired a Canadian firm to recruit scientists to publish studies that defended its Roundup weed killer. The studies were used by Health Canada and the U.S. EPA to re-approve glyphosate, despite a UN agency's finding that it was probably carcinogenic.
Monsanto was the world’s largest seed company and owned over 80% of all the genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered) seeds planted around the world. Bayer, the second largest agrochemical company in the world, bought Monsanto for $63 billion. The Canadian government approved this merger in 2018.
Jun 4, 2018 · And soon Monsanto will be no more. Bayer, the German pharmaceutical giant and pesticide powerhouse, announced in 2016 it would be buying Monsanto in an all-cash deal for more than $60 billion.
Nov 18, 2023 · Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit was ordered by a Missouri jury to pay more than $1.5 billion to three former users of its Roundup weedkiller who blamed their cancers on the controversial product in one...
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