Editing Monsanto (section)

===United Kingdom===
During the late 1990s, Monsanto lobbied to raise permitted glyphosate levels in soybeans and was successful in convincing [[Codex Alimentarius]] and both the UK and US governments to lift levels 200 times to 20 milligrams per kilogram of soya.<ref name="captive">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdYPAAAAQBAJ|title=Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain|last=Monbiot|first=George|date=July 11, 2013|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4472-5247-4}}</ref>{{rp|265}} When asked how negotiations with Monsanto were conducted, [[Lord Donoughue]], then the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] Agriculture minister in the [[House of Lords]], stated that all information relating to the matter would be "kept secret".<ref name=captive />{{rp|265}} During the 24 months prior to the 1997 British election Monsanto representatives had 22 meetings at the departments of Agriculture and the Environment.<ref name=captive/>{{rp|266}} [[Stanley Greenberg]], an election advisor to [[Tony Blair]], later worked as a Monsanto consultant.<ref name=captive/>{{rp|266}} Former Labour spokesperson David Hill, became Monsanto's media adviser at the lobbying firm [[Bell Pottinger]].<ref name=captive/>{{rp|266}} The Labour government was challenged in Parliament about "trips, facilities, gifts and other offerings of financial value provided by Monsanto to civil servants", but only acknowledged that [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]] had two working lunches with Monsanto.<ref name=captive/>{{rp|267}} [[Peter Luff]], then a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] and Chairman of the Agriculture Select Committee, received up to £10,000 a year from Bell Pottinger on behalf of Monsanto.<ref name=captive/>{{rp|266}}<ref>{{cite news | title = Monsanto's lobby firm pays key MP | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1999/jul/04/uk.politicalnews |date=July 4, 1999| first = Antony | last = Barnett | newspaper =The Guardian | location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Resign call over MP's link with GM food firm | url = https://www.theguardian.com/science/1999/jul/11/gm.food |date=July 11, 1999 | first = Antony | last = Barnett | newspaper =The Guardian | location=London}}</ref>