Monsanto/Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer was discovered to be a “substantial factor” in causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a California man, because the trial proceeds to its subsequent section to find out legal responsibility and damages.
In a landmark verdict that would have an effect on quite a few different circumstances, a federal jury in San Francisco discovered Roundup herbicide to be a important contributing issue in causing the cancer of a man from Santa Rosa, California. During the trial, 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman alleged that his decades-long publicity to the Monsanto product had led him to develop a cancer that impacts the immune system, known as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL).
The trial will now proceed to the subsequent section the place the jury is about to find out the legal responsibility and damages in the case.
Tuesday’s ruling follows one other pivotal verdict in opposition to Monsanto in August, the place the jury awarded terminal cancer affected person Dewayne Johnson a staggering $289 million in damages after ruling that the biotechnology company did not correctly warn customers of Roundup’s well being hazards.
Across the US alone, the German pharmaceutical firm Bayer, which bought Monsanto final yr, is probably dealing with 1000’s of comparable lawsuits involving Roundup weed killer.
“Monsanto has placed an unsafe product on the market, has manipulated the science and manipulated public opinion and has consistently misled people into believing Roundup is safe,” Jennifer Moore, one of many plaintiff’s attorneys, mentioned earlier than the decision, after the protection staff claimed on the trial that the corporate had “bullied” researchers to suppress unfavourable research in regards to the weed killer.