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The Class A Office building was completed in and features a total of , Sqft. When Bayer decided to consolidate four locations into a single headquarters, they decided to move to an existing acre location in Whippany, New Jersey. One exchange notes: "The experiments were performed. All test persons died. We will contact you shortly about a new shipment at the same price.
It is clear that the experiments in the concentration camps with IG preparations only took place in the interests of the IG, which strived by all means to determine the effectiveness of these preparations. They let the SS deal with the - shall I say - dirty work in the concentration camps. It was not the IG's intention to bring any of this out in the open, but rather to put up a smoke screen around the experiments so that Not the SS but the IG took the initiative for the concentration camp experiments.
In the post-war years Bayer grew to become the third largest pharmaceutical company in the world. In the mids Bayer was one of the companies which sold a product called Factor VIII concentrate to treat haemophilia. Factor VIII turned out to be infected with HIV and in the US alone, it infected thousands of haemophiliacs, many of whom died in one of the worst drug-related medical disasters ever. But it was only in that the New York Times revealed that Bayer had continued producing and selling this infected product to Asia and Latin America after February when a safe product had become available, in order to save money.
Dr Sidney M. Wolfe, who investigated the scandal, commented, "These are the most incriminating internal pharmaceutical industry documents I have ever seen. In the early s Bayer is said to have placed patients at risk of potentially fatal infections by failing to disclose crucial safety information during a trial of the antibiotic Ciproxin.
Up to people underwent surgery using Ciproxin without doctors being informed that studies as early as showed Ciproxin reacted badly with other drugs, seriously impairing its ability to kill bacteria.
Germany's health minister accused Bayer of sitting on research documenting Baycol's lethal side-effects for nearly two months before the government in Berlin was informed. It is thought to have been partly in response to the impact of the Baycol scandal that Bayer bought the rival crop sciences unit of French company Aventis, which had absorbed part of Hoechst, in October Today Bayer CropScience is one of Bayer's core business divisions.
In Bayer also set up a separate unit within the company called Leaps by Bayer to invest in disruptive technologies such as synthetic biology, cell manufacturing, gene editing, artificial intelligence, and microbe engineering.
Among the technologies being developed by Leaps companies is the growing of "human" organs in genetically modified pigs for xenotransplantation.
Bayer's take over of Monsanto enabled it to become the world's leading pesticide manufacturer and the world's largest seed company. Liberty is a trade name for Bayer's glufosinate weedkiller. Together with Monsanto's Roundup Ready crops, Bayer's Liberty Link crops have been one of the two main types of GM herbicide resistant crops, but glufosinate is a controversial herbicide.
In January , the European Parliament voted to ban pesticides classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction. As a result the permit for glufosinate will not be renewed.
It is classified as reprotoxic, because of research evidence that it can cause premature birth, intra-uterine death and abortions in rats. Japanese studies show that the substance can also hamper the development and activity of the human brain. In late , as a condition of its Monsanto take over, Bayer was required to divest itself of the Liberty glufosinate and Liberty Link brands - both were sold to BASF.
Still more controversial is Bayer's sale of neonicotinoid insecticides, which scientists around the world have found are a major contributor to bee deaths. For more than two decades, experts have been warning of their negative impacts, with a whole range of studies published on the subject.
In May German authorities blamed clothianidin for the deaths of millions of honeybees, and the German Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety BVL suspended the registration for eight pesticide seed treatment products, including clothianidin and imidacloprid, on maize and rape. Finally, in the European Union agreed a ban on all outdoor uses of the neonicotinoid insecticides clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam, in order to protect bees.
An unrepentant Bayer has been battling to overturn the ban in the courts ever since. In , Bayer CropScience was at the centre of another huge controversy in the aftermath of an explosion at one of its US pesticide production facilities. A US Congressional investigation found faulty safety systems, significant shortcomings with the emergency procedures and a lack of employee training had led to the explosion which killed two employees.
The region apparently narrowly escaped a catastrophe that could have surpassed the Bhopal disaster. According to the Congressional investigation: "Evidence obtained by the committee demonstrates that Bayer engaged in a campaign of secrecy by withholding critical information from local, county and state emergency responders; by restricting the use of information provided to federal investigators; by undermining news outlets and citizen groups concerned about the dangers posed by Bayer's activities; and by providing inaccurate and misleading information to the public.
Even before the Monsanto merger, Bayer CropScience was involved in a large number of controversies related to GM crops, perhaps most notably the contamination in of much of the US long-grain rice supply by Bayer's unapproved Liberty Link GM rice. This caused the U. Out of many dye factories built at this time, only few managed to survive over the long term with the potential to expand into the international company, and Bayer was one of them. The workforce grew from three staff in to over by — an impressive growth by the company in its early years.
Shortly before World War 1, in , of the people employed by Bayer worked outside of Germany. When the First World War began, Bayer became integrated into the war economy, producing war materials such as explosives and chemical weapons. The company was largely cut off from its major export markets and because of this, sales of dyes and pharmaceuticals dropped.
Bayer lost most of its foreign assets, too. Its Russian subsidiary was expropriated as a result of the Russian Revolution. In , its US assets, including its patents and trademarks, were confiscated and auctioned off to competitors.
Once the global economy stabilised in the mids, the German dyestuffs industry was unable to regain its position in the old market. In order to remain competitive, Bayer merged with other companies belonging to the community of interests in The company transferred its assets to I. Farbenindustrie AG I. Yet the Bayer tradition lived on in the I. Leverkusen also became the headquarters for the I. In the early s, the Wupperal-Elberfeld facility continued its successful research into drugs to control malaria.
Working together with Fritz Mietzsch and Joseph Klarer, Gerhard Domagk discovered the therapeutic effect of the sulphonamides. Prontosil was the name of the first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic.
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