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2006-12-18 | permalink
Monsanto affiliate’s former directors fined 30,000 euros by French court
The high court of Carcassone (Aude) sentenced two ex-directors of the American seed company Monsanto's former subsidiary Asgrow, Jean-Bernard Bonastre et Serge Reymond, to pay fines of [Euro]15,000 each on Wednesday afternoon. According to Michel Dupont, trade union organiser in charge of GMOs with the farm organisation Confederation Paysanne, the defendants were found guilty on four counts of (a) having placed a genetically modified organism on the market without authorisation, (b) sale and storage of a falsified, corrupt or toxic agricultural product, (c ) fraudulent advertising, and (e) deception on the nature and quality of merchandise in 1999 and 2000. In April 2006, the General Directorate for Fair Trading, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) discovered low level but illegal traces of GMOs in soya during a routine inspection of the Groupe Cooperative Occitan (Tarn).
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2006-12-18 | permalink
Monsanto affiliate’s former directors fined 30,000 euros by French court
The high court of Carcassone (Aude) sentenced two ex-directors of the American seed company Monsanto's former subsidiary Asgrow, Jean-Bernard Bonastre et Serge Reymond, to pay fines of [Euro]15,000 each on Wednesday afternoon. According to Michel Dupont, trade union organiser in charge of GMOs with the farm organisation Confederation Paysanne, the defendants were found guilty on four counts of (a) having placed a genetically modified organism on the market without authorisation, (b) sale and storage of a falsified, corrupt or toxic agricultural product, (c ) fraudulent advertising, and (e) deception on the nature and quality of merchandise in 1999 and 2000. In April 2006, the General Directorate for Fair Trading, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) discovered low level but illegal traces of GMOs in soya during a routine inspection of the Groupe Cooperative Occitan (Tarn).
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