Ethical Corporation Magazine, UK
Shell, Dow Chemicals, Chiquita, Del Monte and Dole Food Company are facing renewed legal action by Honduran banana workers for their alleged use of a harmful pesticide in the 1970s and 1980s
A new lawsuit, filed on 14 April in a Los Angeles federal court, claims that chemical manufacturers and fruit companies knowingly used and distributed the pesticide 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP) after it was banned by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979.
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