Monsanto

Beyond Pesticides, the Center for Food Safety (CFS), and others are doing victory dances this week after back-to-back court wins. By denying a writ of certiorari in Hardeman v. Monsanto, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand an early $25 million award to a person with cancer overuse of Roundup (glyphosate)…

The U.S. Supreme Court is not taking the appeal of Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto. The first federal Roundup case tried before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco, Hardeman v. Monsanto, returned a jury award of $80 million, which was subsequently reduced to $25 by the judge. Along with…

Updated 17 hours ago · Published on 22 Jun 2022 9:10AM · Roundup is a weedkiller containing glyphosate, which is classified as a 'probable carcinogen' by the International Agency for Research on Cancer at the World Health Organization. – EPA pic, June 22, 2022. THE US Supreme Court yesterday declined…

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On Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard arguments in the challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto-Bayer’s flagship Roundup weedkiller.  Glyphosate is down but not out after last year when California’s highest Court upheld an $86.2 million award…

Beware of unexpected USB keys in the mail, FlexBooker admits data theft and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday January 19th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing writer on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. The group behind the Darkside and BlackMatter ransomware malware is mailing infected USB keys to American organizations. According…

A Chinese scientist who pleaded guilty to U.S. economic espionage charges on Thursday was recruited by the Chinese government as part of a foreign spying program that recruited people with access to foreign trade secrets and technology sought by Beijing. Xiang Haitao, a former scientist with Monsanto, and permanent U.S.…

WASHINGTON, DC: A Chinese national pleaded guilty on Thursday (Friday in Manila) to conspiring to steal a trade secret from American agribusiness giant Monsanto, the Justice Department said. Xiang Haitao, 44, was employed as an imaging scientist by Monsanto and its subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, from 2008 to 2017, the…

Greenhouses seen at the headquarters of the Monsanto Company, in St. Louis, Missouri.Daniel Dreifuss/picture alliance via Getty Images Xiang Haitao, 44, worked for Monsanto in Missouri from 2008 to 2017. The DOJ said he stole a secret algorithm before leaving and planned to pass it to China. The US identified…

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