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September 1998

Monsanto Files Complaint Against Granada Television
21/9/98, Monsanto Company (Statement)
Monsanto Company today announced that it has filed an official complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Commission over last month's World in Action programme on genetically modified food.

Poll Split Over Ban on X-foods
19/9/98, Western Daily Press
More West consumers are in favour of genetically-modified foods than want them banned -- though only by the narrowest of margins -- a new survey has shown.

New Seed And Gene Protection Methods: Monsanto's Position
18/9/98, Monsanto Company (Statement)
The recent issuance of the patent "Control of Plant Gene Expression" adds a new dimension to the overall public dialogue on biotechnology.

Science In Some Form Has Always Been With Us
15/9/98, Western Mail (Cardiff)
Organic production, as an alternative to intensive farming, "is the road to mass starvation."

Monsanto Intends To Invest $350 Million For A Roundup Manufacturing Facility In Brazil
14/9/98, Monsanto Company (Statement)
Monsanto Company announced today its intention to invest US $350 million over the next four years in a manufacturing and formulation plant in Camaçari, a city in the State of Bahia in the northeast of Brazil, to produce its flagship Roundup herbicide.

Enhanced Rape Seed Oil Could Supply Vitamin A
14/9/98, Irish Times
The US company Monsanto has unveiled its latest biotechnology crop which it predicts will help prevent vitamin A deficiency, affecting up to 800 million people.

Boffins Urge Crop Watch
12/9/98, The Grocer
UK Scientists are urging the government to set up an independent body to check up on farmers growing genetically modified crops.

Monsanto, Microcredit And Bangladesh
02/9/98, Monsanto Company (Statement)
In February 1997, Bob Shapiro, Monsantoís CEO and the only corporate leader on the agenda, told over 2000 delegates attending the Microcredit Summit in Washington, D.C.: "I am here, in part, because poverty is our common ancestor."