A federal jury on Tuesday unanimously found that Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused a California man’s cancer, advancing his high-stakes San Francisco trial to a second phase to decide whether the agrochemical company is liable for his illness and how much it might owe for selling him a carcinogenic product. The six-person jury found plaintiff […]
U.S. Judge to Allow Controversial Evidence in Roundup Cancer Trials…
A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence that the company had hoped to exclude from upcoming trials. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria during a hearing in San Francisco federal court called his decision “probably most disappointing for Monsanto,” the Bayer […]
Monsanto Rests Its Case in Roundup Cancer Trial…
A Chicago oncologist suggested Friday that a groundskeeper’s aggressive lymphoma was inherited and not caused by Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, in a California jury trial over the herbicide’s alleged carcinogenicity. Although Rush University’s Timothy Kuzel didn’t directly call the man’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma an inherited disease, he testified about various emerging treatments grounded in the theory […]
Monsanto Scientist Grilled in Roundup Cancer Trial…
On the 14th day of a California jury trial over whether Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer triggered a Bay Area man’s terminal lymphoma, a Harvard cancer epidemiologist denied telling the jury that research showing a link between the herbicide and cancer is flawed because Monsanto paid her $100,000. Running through a number of epidemiological studies finding […]
Yelling Breaks Out During Roundup Cancer Link Trial…
In a bid to discredit a Columbia University cancer expert who says Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer is carcinogenic, lawyers for the agrichemical giant accused him on Wednesday of lying under oath about the purported link between Roundup and cancer, in a contentious California jury trial over whether the weed killer caused a Bay Area man’s […]
California Judge Rules Against Monsanto, Allows Cancer Warning on Roundup…
California is the first U.S. state to require Monsanto to label its blockbuster weed killer, Roundup, as a possible carcinogen, according to a ruling issued Friday by a California judge. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan previously issued a tentative ruling on Jan. 27 in Monsanto Company v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, […]
New Risks of GMO Food, Glyphosate Uncovered: Scientist’s Ground-Breaking Research…
Within just a few weeks, two studies were published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports that cast new doubts on the safety of genetically modified foods and glyphosate herbicide. The first found that a genetically modified corn, NK 603, was not substantially equivalent to a non-GMO counterpart, which is contrary to claims of GMO proponents…