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> These are proprietary products. Until they release those formulations for testing, we're not allowed to [test them]. This can't be true, or I must be missing
by distrill 9y ago
> These are proprietary products. Until they release those formulations for testing, we're not allowed to [test them].
This can't be true, or I must be missing something. Why can't they buy these chemicals as "farmers" and test them?
- embedded 9y ago"In this case, Monsanto denied requests by university researchers to study its XtendiMax with VaporGrip for volatility - a measure of its tendency to vaporize and drift across fields. The researchers interviewed by Reuters - Jason Norsworthy at the University of Arkansas, Kevin Bradley at the University of Missouri and Aaron Hager at the University of Illinois - said Monsanto provided samples of XtendiMax before it was approved by the EPA. However, the samples came with contracts that explicitly forbade volatility testing." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pesticides-dicamba-insight/scant-oversight-corporate-secrecy-preceded-u-s-weed-killer-crisis-idUSKBN1AP0DN https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pesticides-dicamba-in...