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Company: Aventis CropScience
Current Parent Company: Bayer
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Penalty: $10,596,097
Year: 2001
Date: October 17, 2001
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Aventis CropScience agreed to pay compensation to farmers and grain elevator operators who found Starlink genetically modified corn contaminating their normal corn, reducing its value.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Iowa Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Iowa
HQ Country of Current Parent: Germany
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: chemicals
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