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Pesticide giant ignored warnings over ineffective safety measures used in world’s deadliest weedkiller, investigation reveals
Internal documents and a whistleblower reveal how global pesticide giant Syngenta and its predecessors knew for decades that a key 'safety' feature in its lethal paraquat-based weedkillers did little or nothing to prevent poisoning deaths – but continued to present it as effective to regulators and the public.