By Scott Kilman and Thomas Catan
The Wall Street Journal
Posted January 15, 2010
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into crop-biotechnology giant Monsanto Company as it contends with the loss of patent protection on its blockbuster soybean in 2014.
Monsanto on Thursday received a formal demand from the Justice Department for information about the St. Louis company’s business practices surrounding its Roundup Ready soybean, the nation’s most popular genetically-modified crop. Continue reading U.S. Opens Inquiry Into Monsanto – Antitrust Enforcers Probe Business Practices Surrounding Biotech Soybean Seed