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Monsanto's greatest hits / As industrial and chemical innovations of the 20th century came and went, Monsanto was there -- San Jose Metro, May 11, 2000. "1986--Monsanto found guilty of negligently exposing a worker to benzene at its Chocolate Bayou Plant in Texas. It is forced to pay $100 million to the family of Wilbur Jack Skeen, a worker who died of leukemia after repeated exposures.
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Monsanto is not the only Gene Giant downsizing. Last year, biotech giant Syngenta closed down its plant genome lab in San Diego, terminated its controversial research partnership with the University of California in Berkeley, pulled out of its planned collaboration with the Indira Gandhi rice research institute in India, and canceled its contract with the John Innes Center in the UK.
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[I]n this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1947, an accidental explosion of ammonium nitrate fertilizer loaded on the French ship S.S. Grandcamp destroyed an adjacent Monsanto styrene manufacturing plant, along with much of the port at Galveston Bay. The explosion, known as the Texas City Disaster, is considered the largest industrial accident in US history, with the highest death toll. As the decade ended, Monsanto acquired American Viscose from England's Courtauld family in 1949.
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Monsanto began creating the sand prairie restoration area in 1993, planting 65 acres with native grasses and wildflowers, and later expanding the site to 200 acres. The butterfly garden was planted in 1998.
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In 1997, Schmeiser discovered, while routinely spraying herbicide along a ditch, that some of his canola plants had become herbicide-resistant - contaminated by pollen from Monsanto's patented herbicide-resistant canola. In August 1998, Monsanto launched a lawsuit against Schmeiser for patent infringement, alleging that Schmeiser had acquired and planted seeds containing patented genes without a license, and then sold harvested seed... infringing the company's patent. Mr. Schmeiser has become a globally known figure during his long legal battle with Monsanto.
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Monsanto expanded internationally, opening an office in Shanghai and a plant in Beijing, China. The company ... hoped to expand in Thailand, and entered into a joint venture in Japan with Mitsubishi Chemical Co.
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