A 50: 50 mixture of 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D, it was manufactured for the U. S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical.

Internal memoranda revealed that Monsanto ( a manufacturer of 2, 4, 5-T ) had informed the U. S. government in 1952 that its 2, 4, 5-T was contaminated.

At the Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto Park, Brabham was chasing race leader Moss when a backmarker moved over on him and launched the Cooper into the air.

The Monsanto Company was the first organization to mass-produce visible LEDs, using gallium arsenide phosphide ( GaAsP ) in 1968 to produce red LEDs suitable for indicators.

In the United States, commercial production of PCBs was taken over in 1929 by Monsanto Company from Swann Chemical Company.

A 50: 50 mixture of 2, 4, 5-T and 2, 4-D, it was manufactured for the U. S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical.

In 1996, a patented Roundup Ready or glyphosate-resistant soybean was marketed by Monsanto Company, suggesting that it would be possible to genetically modify coca in an analogous manner.

After World War II the Port of Antwerp was expanded and on its premises several chemical factories and oil refineries were established, such as Bayer, BASF, Monsanto Company.

Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter at the G. D. Searle company ( later purchased by Monsanto ).

It was acquired by the Monsanto Company, headquartered in St. Louis, in 1985.

Pharmacia was created in April 2000 through the merger of Pharmacia & Upjohn with the Monsanto Company and its G. D. Searle unit.

The agricultural division was spun off from Pharmacia, as Monsanto, in preparation for the close of the acquisition by Pfizer.

The agricultural chemical division under the name Monsanto was spun off in 2002, but Pharmacia retained the original pharmaceutical division from Searle.

On January 26, 2001 a number of activists with Brazil's Movimento dos Sem-Terra ( MST ) reacted in protest to the growing role of Monsanto in global agribusiness, which was considered by the group to be unethically using their seed patents to harm the rights of rural peoples, tore up an experimental plot of transgenic crops in Não-me-Toque, 300 km from Porto Alegre, where the World Social Forum was taking place at the time.

In one high-profile case ( Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser ) the Monsanto Company sued Percy Schmeiser for patent infringement after he replanted canola seed that he had harvested from his field, which he discovered was contaminated with Monsanto's patented glyphosate-tolerant canola by spraying it with Roundup, leaving only the resistant plants.

The Supreme Court ruled that Percy was in violation of Monsanto's patent because he knowingly replanted the resistant seed that he had harvested, but he was not required to pay Monsanto damages since he did not benefit financially from its presence.

Monsanto also was a leading manufacturer of controversial products such as the insecticide DDT, PCBs which were used as electrical insulators, and the defoliant Agent Orange.

As a biotech company, Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, announced in 1983, and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987.

Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901, by John Francis Queeny, a 30 &# 8209 ; year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry.

In October 2008, the company's Canadian division, Monsanto Canada Inc., was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's news magazine.

In 1926, Monsanto founded and incorporated a company town named Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois.

* In the second episode of the first season of Futurama, " The Series Has Landed ", a Moon carnival ride named " The Goophy Gopher Revue " is said to have been sponsored / owned by " Monsanto ".

* Folk artist Old Man Luedecke released a song entitled " Monsanto Jones ", criticizing Monsanto's business practices by way of making light of a character named Monsanto Jones.

The original artificial turf playing surface in the Superdome was produced by Monsanto specifically for the Superdome and was named " Mardi Grass.

* Monsanto Company genetically modified crops

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs used by U. S. industry were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

* Aroclor xxxx ( used by Monsanto Company )

* Aroclor xxxx ( used by Monsanto Company )

One of the earlier cases in 1936 described an incident where a U. S. Public Health Service official described a wife and child of a worker from the Monsanto Industrial Chemical Company who exhibited blackheads and pustules on their skin.

The only North American producer, Monsanto Company, marketed PCBs under the trade name Aroclor from 1930 to 1977.

Chemical manufacturer Monsanto Company agreed to change its advertising after pressure from New York attorney general Dennis Vacco ; Vacco complained about misleading claims that its spray-on glyphosate-based herbicides, including Roundup, were safer than table salt and " practically non-toxic " to mammals, birds, and fish.

Monsanto Company developed a synthetic ( recombinant ) version of this hormone ( rBST ).

Aspartame is currently the most popular artificial sweetener in the U. S. food industry, as the price has dropped significantly since the Monsanto Company patent expired in 1992.

The merged company " Pharmacia & Upjohn " merged with the American bioindustry and medical company Monsanto Company in 2000 ( Monsanto had acquired the pharma company G. D. Searle & Company in 1985 ).

According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ( ATSDR ), approximately 99 percent of the PCBs in the United States were produced by the Monsanto Chemical Company.

Some activities by activists attending the WSF have also been criticised, such as at the WSF 2001, where activists invaded and destroyed an experimental genetically modified plantation of the Monsanto Company.

Monsanto Company () is an American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation.

Using the techniques of modern biotechnology, one or two genes ( Smartstax from Monsanto in collaboration with Dow AgroSciences will use 8, starting in 2010 ) may be transferred to a highly developed crop variety to impart a new character that would increase its yield.

In 2010, two companies ( Monsanto and Illumina ), completed enough Illumina sequencing to cover the D genome of G. raimondii about 50x.

Monsanto stock price 2000 – 2010.

In November 2010, a federal judge ordered the destruction of plantings of genetically modified sugar beets developed by Monsanto after ruling previously that the U. S. Agriculture Department had illegally approved the biotech crop.

After the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, Monsanto donated $ 255, 000 dollars to Haiti for disaster relief and 60, 000 seed sacks ( 475 tons ) of hybrid ( non-GM ) corn and vegetable seeds worth $ 4 million.

Monsanto later operated the site as FlexSys, one of their subsidiaries, but production on ths site ceased in 2010.