在由 拜耳作物科学拜耳在一份新闻稿中表示，西班牙穆尔西亚的三名作物保护产品造假者已被判有罪。这些公司一直在销售无标签、未经许可的产品，并以危害公共健康和消费者保护罪为由被处以罚款。此外，它们暂时被禁止在作物保护行业进行交易。
The legal proceedings were instituted in 2004 in a close joint effort by Bayer CropScience and the relevant authorities because some of the products the counterfeiters were marketing contained the active substance imidacloprid, infringing on Bayer CropScience’s patent held at that time.