In
Italy Bayer has five production centers which employ more than 2,000 people. Garbagnate, near
Milan, is one of the most important sites for the production of pharmaceuticals. Filago, where crop
protection agents produced, was the first chemical park in Italy to be certified to the EU
Eco-Management and Audit Scheme EMAS II. Rosia is the location of the Biological Products Business
Group's European center for the packaging and distribution of blood products and of Kogenate®
Bayer/Kogenate SF® , the first genetically engineered Bayer preparation for the treatment of
hemophilia.