Monsanto ordered to pay $289m damages in Roundup cancer trial

Monsanto ordered to pay $289m damages in Roundup cancer trial

Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $ 289m (£ 226m) loss to one such person, who has claimed that the glyphosate containing herbicide was the cause of cancer.

In a historic case, a California jury found that Monsanto knew that its roundup and ranger pro weedkiller were dangerous and failed to warn consumers.

This is the first lawsuit to go to the trial of accusing cancer of glyphosate of cancer.

Monsanto denied that glyphosate is the cause of cancer and says it wants to appeal against the ruling.

Vice President Scott Partridge said outside the court in San Francisco, "The jury found it wrong."

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In the case, the claimant, Groundskeeper Devon Johnson, has more than 5000 similar plaintiffs across the US.

Correspondents say that California's decision could cause hundreds of other claims against Monsanto, which was recently bought by the German group Bayer AG.

Mr. Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hzakkin lymphoma in 2014. His lawyers said that he used a form of RangerPro regularly while working in a school in Benfica, California.

Glyphosate controversy is far from settling

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Glyphosate is the world's most common weed and science is still far from settling about its safety.

In 2015, the International Agency for the Research on Cancer for World Cancer Organization's cancer agency concluded that it was "cancerous for humans". But the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) insisted that glyphosate is safe when used with caution.

Promoters question how to reach the EPA assessment, citing the evidence they said was unfair business participation in the decision.

Some Democrats have also investigated the Justice Department in connection with the alleged official involvement between government officials and Monsanto.

In California, where a judge recently decided that coffee should take warning of cancer, the agro-industry has filed a suit for preventing such labels on the roundup, even if the state is known as cancer due to cancer. Lists.

Even in Europe, the fight on glyphosate is fierce. The French President Immanuel Macron is trying to ban it despite the resistance of some French MPs and the fact is that the European Commission recently gave a five-year license to VIDEO.

Junior found out on Friday that the company has worked with "misfortune" and its weeds have contributed "substantially" to Mr Johnson's Terminal Illness.

After an eight-week trial, the jury ordered the payment of 250 million dollars in penal damages to the agricultural multinational, as well as the total cost reached approximately 290 meters.

Mr Johnson's lawyer Brent Wisner said that the jury's decision showed that the evidence against the product was "overwhelming."

He said, "When you are right, winning is really easy," he said, that this decision was "the tip of the spear" of future legal matters.

In a statement after the ruling, Monsanto said that it was "sympathetic to Mr Johnson and his family", but it would "continue to preserve this product firmly, with 40 years of history of safe use".

"Today's decision will not change the fact that more than 800 scientific studies and reviews - and the conclusions by American Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. National Health Institute and Worldwide Regulatory Authorities - support the fact that glyphosate is not the cause of cancer, And Mr Johnson did not have the cause of cancer, "it said.