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Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta announced last week it will halt global production of paraquat by the end of June, citing economic pressures from smaller chemical companies that make similar versions of the toxic pesticide. But Syngenta has been hammered for years by environmental groups backed by scores of studies around the world linking paraquat to Parkinson’s, the world’s fastest growing brain disease.
