Monsanto

Agrochemicals company Monsanto is pleading guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on its Maui fields in 2014. Monsanto, now owned by pharmaceutical company Bayer, is also agreeing to pay $10 million in an agreement over charges it unlawfully stored acute haza…

Agrochemicals company Monsanto is pleading guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on its Maui fields in 2014. Monsanto, now owned by pharmaceutical company Bayer, is also agreeing to pay $10 million in an agreement over charges it unlawfully stored acute haza…

Monsanto Company has agreed to plead guilty to illegally using a banned pesticide known as Penncap-M on research crops at one of its facilities on Maui, according to the Department of Justice. Justice officials say Monsanto agreed to plead guilty to a misdem…

(Adds details on charges, background) WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A Chinese national who worked for Monsanto before it was purchased by Bayer AG was charged in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday with stealing trade secrets for China, the U.S. Justice Depar…

ST. LOUIS A federal grand jury this week added new charges against a former Monsanto employee of stealing trade secrets on behalf of a controversial Chinese government talent recruiting program. The indictment, unsealed Thursday, mirrors that of a criminal c…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Chinese national who worked for Monsanto before it was purchased by Bayer AG was indicted on Thursday on charges of stealing trade secrets, the U.S. Justice Department said. Haitao Xiang, 42, who was employed by Monsanto from 2008 t…

A Canadian law firm has filed a $500 million class-action lawsuit against Monsanto and its owner Bayer. It says they’ve been acting with reckless disregard for the safety of Canadians by selling weed killer Roundup. According to the firm Diamond & Diamo…

Lawyers in British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta have launched a $500-million class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide Roundup for allegedly withholding information that the product causes cancer. Lawyers in Vancouver, Toronto and in Edmonton…

Ex-Monsanto Researcher Accused of Taking Trade Secrets to China

Senator Marco Rubio on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Rubio is exploring how levers of policy affect market conditions and behaviors, a discussion that is stretching the Rights traditional vocabulary.Deep…