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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, May 08, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency has reaffirmed its conclusion that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup, is probably not carcinogenic, in a proposed registration decision that would allow the herbicide to continue to be used in the United States.
Monsanto is appealing a state court’s verdict awarding $78.5 million to a California man who says exposure to Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
A six-person jury has awarded a California man more than $80 million after finding Monsanto liable in the first federal trial over whether Roundup causes cancer.
A federal jury in San Francisco concluded Tuesday that exposure to Roundup was a “substantial factor” in causing a Santa Rosa man’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma, triggering a second phase of the trial to determine Monsanto’s liability.
A California state court judge issued a decision Monday to slash a jury award to a man who claims his exposure to Roundup caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but let the verdict against Bayer’s Monsanto stand.
A jury in California state court adjourned Wednesday without reaching a verdict in a case in which a school groundskeeper is seeking more than $400 million to compensate for developing cancer after being exposed to the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.
A series of cases involving individual plaintiffs alleging that exposure to glyphosate caused their non-Hodgkin lymphoma can move forward, a federal judge in California ruled today.
It was the battle of the experts at what was dubbed "Science Week" in a federal court in California last week, as lawyers for plaintiffs and for defendant Monsanto put witnesses on the stand who tried to explain the intricacies of toxicology and epidemiology to a federal and a state judge.
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - The already controversial decision by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) – determining that the widely used herbicide glyphosate probably causes cancer in humans – is now even more subject to debate.
