Bayer CropScience sued by US rice farmers over GM rice
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German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said that its agrochemicals division, CropScience, was being sued by rice farmers in the United States in a fight over genetically modified long-grain rice.
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Scores of Shanghai parents are to sue a biotech firm suspected of concealing the fact that their children's umbilical cord blood, believed to be a likely cure for future blood diseases, was tainted, state media said on Thursday.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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A Chinese company is suing Google  Inc.&#39;s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S.  search engine&#39;s registered Chinese name is too similar to its  own and has harmed its operations.
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Robinson-based Bayer Corp., the US division of Germany&#39;s Bayer AG, yesterday became the first company to settle charges with the US Justice Department for its
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The attorneys general of five states and the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to try to force the government to reduce pesticide use in public housing projects.
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A Chinese company is suing Google  Inc.'s China subsidiary for copying its name, saying the U.S.  search engine's registered Chinese name is too similar to its  own and has harmed its operations.
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  - Opponents of biotech crops said on Wednesday they were filing a lawsuit to challenge the USDA's deregulation of Monsanto Co's genetically engineered sugar beet because of fears of "biological contamination" and other harm to the environment.
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Two former sales representatives for Amgen Inc. are suing the biotech company, alleging it pushed its sales force to search doctor's confidential medical records for potential patients to boost sales of a drug used to treat psoriasis
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The disclosure last month that American long-grain rice has become widely contaminated with traces of an experimental, gene-altered rice has provoked an economic crisis for farmers and reignited a long-smoldering debate over the adequacy of U.S. oversight of biotech food.
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The pharmaceutical sues over patent infringement.
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Monsanto Co.'s "seed police" snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in 1999, and the company is demanding he pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars for alleged technology piracy. McFarling's sin? He saved seed from one harvest and replanted it the following season, a revered and ancient agricultural practice.
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Monsanto, which pushed for lifting Brazil's ban on GM seeds, disputes claims that the new policy will harm the environment.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG SACRAMENTO - California's attorney general on Wednesday sued the six largest U.S. and Japanese automakers, including GM, Ford and Toyota, for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions.
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U.S. farmers are keeping a tight hold  on their freshly harvested rice crop, waiting for prices to  recover after an unapproved biotech variety was found in  regular supplies, trade sources said.
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The Bayer Corporation, a subsidiary of the Bayer Group of Germany, has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $33 million criminal fine for taking part in a conspiracy
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The Agriculture Department approved for human consumption a type of genetically engineered rice that had contaminated domestic rice supplies last summer.