Monsanto pleaded guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and agreed to pay $10.2 million in criminal fines and other payments for the spraying and for illegally storing hazardous waste, U.S. prosecutors said.
The Department of Justice said … that Monsanto sprayed Penncap-M, which contained the banned pesticide methyl parathion, on research crops in 2014
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Bayer said … that Monsanto “did not live up to its own standards or the applicable laws,” and was unaware of any reported health or environmental problems from its conduct.
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