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SW: →Unknown and Unintended Effects: correct company name
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(1) Though Monsanto is the largest agbiotech company other major players are [[Bayer CropScience]], [[Dow AgroSciences]], [[Syngenta Biotechnology]], [[Ventria Bioscience]], [[Dupont Biotechnology]] and [[BasfBASF]]. A host of smaller companies exist as well.
(2) Glyphosate products such as "Rodeo" and "Accord" along with a lengthy list of other herbicides, are also applied liberally by local governments to aquatic environments such as streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and reservoirs often simply because certain wild plants therein are deemed 'aesthetically undesirable'. A shortened list [http://www.state.me.us/agriculture/pesticides/dealer/aquaticherb_list.htm].
