NEW YORK: Monsanto truncated its relationship with Burson-Marsteller last week, ending a number of projects involving the company’s bioengineered food products.

NEW YORK: Monsanto truncated its relationship with

Burson-Marsteller last week, ending a number of projects involving the

company’s bioengineered food products.



While several sources within the industry speculated that Monsanto

dropped Burson in the wake of reports that the firm’s Washington, DC

office paid pro-biotech demonstrators to appear at an FDA hearing

earlier this month, Monsanto director of public affairs Scarlett Foster

dismissed the rumors.



’(Burson) was extremely professional and ...