Class-action suit filed

Farm Industry News Jan01

In early December, a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of farmers against Aventis, the developer of StarLink. The suit states Aventis failed to inform farmers that EPA had approved StarLink for animal fee and industrial purposes.  As a result, farmers allowed the StarLink crops to cross-pollinate with other crops in nearby fields and mixed the contaminated corn with regular corn supplies.  Therefore, farmers who did not raise SarLink corn still had crops contaminated with StarLink.