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Farming is difficult enough given the caprices of Mother Nature, but it can become downright impossible when using a pesticide that kills rather than protects the crops. Just ask the 400 farmers and growers in 20 states who are suing E.I. du Pont de Nemours. Their suits charge that the chemical giant knowingly sold a contaminated fungicide that destroyed millions of dollars worth of crops of fruits and vegetables as well as nurseries of flowering bushes and ferns...
...first suit to reach trial, now under way in Columbus, Georgia, growers claim that Du Pont had determined through its own tests that the fungicide, Benlate, was improperly mixed with the herbicide sulfonylurea, yet failed to notify users or the Environmental Protection Agency as required by law. Farmers also accuse the company of furthering the cover-up by refusing to turn over crucial documents to the farmers' attorneys...
...Du Pont, which began presenting its defense last week, denies that Benlate was tainted and contends that ruined crops were probably the result of high heat and humidity or of farmers' overuse of fertilizers or pesticides. But initially, at least, the company acted as if it had its own doubts about Benlate: it voluntarily recalled the fungicide in 1991 and paid $510 million to growers in compensation. The company stopped the payouts, it says, after a panel of outside experts reviewed company records and new field tests and concluded that Benlate could not have caused the damage. The fungicide remains...
Other claims against Du Pont go even further. Some suits allege that Benlate is harmful not just to crops but to people, producing headaches, muscle pangs and nausea...