Significant safety lapses by management of Bayer Cropscience's Institute plant caused a fatal August 2008 explosion that could have turned into a disaster worse than Bhopal, according to evidence presented Tuesday to a congressional committee. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
This special report seems to include a fair bit of good investigative journalism into a very devious and secretive corporation manufacturing a dangerous chemical in a criminally negligent way.
I am not familiar with this insecticide and its uses, nor with alternatives. That might add to understanding any social value to tolerating the risk of this chemical.
The explosion occurred in a unit where Bayer makes methomyl, which it then uses to produce Larvin, the company’s brand name of the insecticide thiodicarb. But ... More »
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