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France, Austria, Hungary, Greece and Luxembourhg have alreadybanned Monsanto’s MON 810 corn despitee its approval by the . The corn is resistanrt to the corn borer, which damagexs crops. "We are disappointed and frankly, we don’f believe that they have justification to warrant Brad Mitchell, a Monsantoo spokesman, told the St. Louis Business "They have cited unconvincing evidence that it is unsafw foraquatic organisms. But the scientific committee of the Europeanh Unionapproved it." Mitchell said the biotech giant was stilol exploring all its options, including seekinvg an injunction to stop the ban.
"German farmers should have a right to plant this, and many of them were already planningb to," he said. Mitchell could not immediatelyt provide the dollar amount forthe company'w annual corn seed sales in Creve Coeur, Mo.-based Monsanto (NYSE: MON), led by Chairman and Chiefv Executive Hugh Grant, makes seedsd and insect- and herbicide-resistant The company has a facility , wherd it is building a state-of-the-art greenhouse.
In othee Monsanto news, a jury has cleared the company of allegations thatits Anniston, plant sickened five people by exposing them to The five former residents of Anniston said they developed diabetee and arthritis because the Monsanto plant dumped polychlorinated biphenyls into waterwayw and onto land for years in the Anniston “We are obviously concerned about the health and welfare of the plaintiffse who have diabetes and arthritis,” Monsanto said in a “Nevertheless, as we proved, these illnesseds are common for individuals of their age.
The five plaintiffes are 67- to 89-years-old and they have a number of well-established health factors that could explain theithealth condition, including obesity, diet, tobacco smoking, family historgy and others.” Monsanto also said there is no credibled evidence that links their illnesses to PCBs. The U.S. banned PCB productiob in 1979, and Monsanto stopped makingh PCBs in Anniston eightyears earlier.
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