According to reports, Monsanto both sprayed and stored a product known as Penncap-M that contains a banned insecticide known as methyl parathion, which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has classified as an “acute hazardous waste.”
Not only did Monsanto illegally spray and store Penncap-M on the Hawaiian island, but it did so with full knowledge that the EPA had prohibited the chemical’s use in 2013, a full year before Monsanto decided to break the law and douse its test crops with it.
Monsanto had apparently told its employees to illegally spray Penncap-M on corn seed and other research crops in the town of Kihei on Maui’s southwest shore, as well as reenter the field seven days after spraying the chemical, even though the minimum waiting period should have been at least 31 days.
Prosecutors from the United States Attorney’s office for the Central District of California reportedly struck a deal with Monsanto, which is now owned by German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG, to not prosecute the company so long as it agrees to pay $6 million in criminal penalties along with $4 million in community service payments....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>..
