* 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 )

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

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.

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 ).

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 was named Forbes " Company of the Year " in 2010, and in 2012 was 10th on Forbes list of " The World's Most Innovative Companies ".

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.

Notable achievements by Monsanto as a chemical company included the awarding of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to William S. Knowles for his research ( with Ryōji Noyori ) on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation performed at Monsanto from the 1960s to 1986 and being the first company to mass-produce light emitting diodes ( LEDs ).

Also in the 1940s, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission.

Monsanto scientists became the first to genetically modify a plant cell in 1982.

Five years later, Monsanto conducted the first field tests of genetically engineered crops.

In 1996 Monsanto purchased Agracetus, the biotechnology company that had generated the first transgenic varieties of cotton, soybeans, peanuts, and other crops, and which Monsanto had already been licencing technology from since 1991.

Monsanto first entered the maize seed business when it purchased 40 % of DEKALB in 1996 ; it purchased the remainder of the corporation in 1998.

The patent on the first type of Roundup Ready crop that Monsanto produced ( soybeans ) expires in 2014.

Monsanto stated that he was infringing their patents because the soybeans he bought from the elevator were new products that he purchased for use as seeds without a license from Monsanto ; Bowman stated that he had not infringed due to patent exhaustion on the first sale of seed to whatever farmers had produced the crops that he bought from the elevator, on the grounds that for seed, all future generations are embodied in the first generation that was originally sold.

* 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 ".

The first Formula One race was held in 14 August 1958 in Boavista, followed in 1959 by a Grand Prix at Monsanto, return to Boavista in 1960, after which it was ended.

After completing graduate school, Fenn's first job was with Monsanto, working in the Phosphate Division and producing polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ).

Four large pharmaceutical companies, Monsanto, American Cyanamid, Eli Lilly, and Upjohn, raced to develop commercial rBST products and submitted them to the FDA for approval .. Worldwide, Lilly was first to market with sales in Mexico, Brazil and other countries that have approved their BST products for commercial sale.

Monsanto licensed Genentech's patent, and was first to get FDA approval, and marketed their product as " Posilac ".

It was the third time the race was held at Monsanto and the first for Formula One.

The site was later acquired by the American chemical company Monsanto, their first venture in Europe, but in 1995 it was sold and renamed Flexys, a specialist in chemicals and additives for the rubber industry.

Monsanto Company, American Motors, Richfield Oil, and Dutch Boy Paint were some of the many companies to open showcases in Tomorrowland in the first few years.

The first such ligand, the diphosphine DiPAMP was developed in 1968 by William S. Knowles of Monsanto Company, who won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and ultimately used in the industrial production of L-DOPA.