Bayer’s public relations headaches over its mammoth takeover of Monsanto intensified Tuesday, as a scandal about “watch lists” of pro- or anti-pesticides figures kept by the U.S. group snowballed across Europe, 根据 CBS 新闻上的一篇文章.该德国组织表示，这些名单涵盖了七个欧洲国家和布鲁塞尔的政治家、记者和其他人。
Bayer’s admission adds to the company’s woes that have piled up since it acquired Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018 — one of the largest in German corporate history — which has also lumbered it with a massive burden of health-related lawsuits.