For the second time in eight months, a jury has found that Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller contributed to cancer in a second man. Edwin Hardeman case was tried in federal court with thousands more lawsuits pending against Monsanto. Bayer, the global food and nutrition company that bought Monsanto, continued to claim today that glyphosate, the ingredient in Roundup linked to cancer, […]
Jurors find Roundup contributed to 2nd man’s cancer
Court awards $289 million to man who says Roundup by Monsanto gave him cancer
A former school groundkeeper, Dewayne Johnson, has been awarded $289 million in damages against Monsanto, after suing the pesticide manufacturer in a Californian Court. Jurors agreed that Monsanto’s product, Roundup, had contributed to Johnson’s cancer in what was the first trial against the behemoth with potentially thousands of other lawsuits to follow. Monsanto, which was bought by pharmaceutical giant Bayer, […]