EU lobby profile: Syngenta
A toxic ‘world champion’
20.10.2022
As agrichemical giant Syngenta hits the news on its extremely toxic herbicide Paraquat, Corporate Europe Observatory reveals the company’s years of lobbying in Europe on behalf of its toxic trade, which involves everything from exporting chemicals banned in the EU, to its defence of bee-killing neonicotinoids, to its all out war on the new Farm to Fork strategy to cut pesticide use by half. Syngenta is a true global toxic lobby champion because it manages to manipulate regulatory science in many countries, increasingly control the international trade in agrochemicals and seeds, and influence