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Company: Monsanto Company
Current Parent Company: Bayer
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Penalty: $10,000,000
Year: 2019
Date: November 21, 2019
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to illegally using a banned pesticide known as Penncap-M on research crops at one of its facilities on the Hawaiian island of Maui. It also agreed to pay a $6 million criminal penalty and $4 million in community service payments to Hawaiian government entities.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Central District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
Facility State: Hawaii
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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