The Syngenta biotech firm can’t use a century-old warehouse law to force a grain elevator company to accept its genetically engineered corn, according to a federal appeals court.
The ruling will likely preclude other biotech seed companies from using a similar litigation tactic with elevators that reject crops due to their transgenic traits, experts say.
Bunge told growers that it couldn’t accept the Viptera variety because it hadn’t cleared regulatory hurdles in all major export destinations. The trait hadn’t been approved by officials in China.
