In a press release Wednesday, the coalition said some 20,000 metric tons of PCBs were used in caulking compounds in Germany, and that more than half of that quantity remains in buildings to this day, including in many schools and universities. The group also cited Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON), which it said was the world’s largest producer of PCBs, as being responsible for the pollutants’ residual effects. “Monsanto and Bayer have long known that PCBs are harmful to humans and the environment,” Philipp Mimkes, from the coalition’s advisory council, said in a statement. “The chemical industry is therefore complicit in thousands of cases of poisoning.”
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:27:55 +0000
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