{"id":130263,"date":"2019-04-01T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=130263"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:49:16","slug":"jury-slams-monsanto-for-corporate-malfeasance-in-roundup-cancer-trial-awards-80-million-in-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/jury-slams-monsanto-for-corporate-malfeasance-in-roundup-cancer-trial-awards-80-million-in-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Slams Monsanto for Corporate Malfeasance in Roundup Cancer Trial, Awards $80 Million in Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtroom testimony obliterated Bayer-Monsanto defense of Roundup.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Roundup, made by Monsanto, is the best-selling weed killer in the world. Farmers and others have filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco, claiming Monsanto failed to warn that exposure to Roundup could cause non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, a type of cancer.
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27 Mar 2019 <\/em>\u2013 Today, a second jury in less than 8 months found Bayer-Monsanto\u2019s signature weed killer Roundup responsible for causing cancer<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The verdict in the case Hardeman v. Monsanto before a federal district court in San Francisco found exposure to glyphosate, the signature ingredient in Roundup, caused plaintiff Edward Hardeman\u2019s non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Jurors awarded $80 million in damages to Hardeman.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cClearly, the testimony that informed the jury\u2019s decision was Bayer-Monsanto hiding Roundup\u2019s carcinogenic properties, manipulating the science and cozying-up with EPA so it would not have to warn consumers of its dangerous product,\u201d said EWG President Ken Cook. \u201cBayer-Monsanto has known for decades the cancer-causing properties of Roundup and I applaud the jury for holding the company accountable for failing to warn consumers of the known danger.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis verdict puts Bayer\u2019s back firmly up against the wall as the cost of litigation mounts and its stock price gets pummeled once again,\u201d said Cook.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Glyphosate is the most heavily used herbicide in the world. People who are not farm workers or groundskeepers are being exposed to the cancer-causing chemical.<\/p>\n

A 2015\u00a0EWG analysis<\/a>\u00a0mapped the year-to-year growth in glyphosate use on American farmland from 1992 to 2012. According to the Department of Agriculture, in 2014, approximately 240 million pounds of glyphosate were sprayed in the U.S. As a result of widespread spraying, glyphosate has now been found to contaminate air, water and soil across vast expanses of the U.S. It also shows up in the food Americans eat every day.<\/p>\n

Biomonitoring studies in a number of states, especially in the Midwest, found glyphosate in the bodies of children and pregnant women. According to initial data from\u00a0a study in Indiana<\/a>, women who were more heavily exposed to glyphosate during pregnancy were more likely to give birth to premature babies who weighed less than average.<\/p>\n

Although the vast majority of glyphosate is applied to genetically modified corn and soybeans, it is increasingly being sprayed on oats just before harvest as a drying agent, or desiccant. Glyphosate kills the crop, drying it out so it can be harvested earlier than if the plant were allowed to die naturally. This allows easier harvesting but also increases the likelihood that the pesticide makes it into food.<\/p>\n

Two separate rounds of laboratory tests\u00a0commissioned last year by EWG<\/a>\u00a0found glyphosate in nearly every sample of popular oat-based cereals and other oat-based food marketed to children.\u00a0The brands in which glyphosate was detected included several cereals and breakfast bars made by General Mills and\u00a0Quaker.<\/p>\n

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The Environmental Working Group is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that empowers people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. Through research, advocacy and unique education tools, EWG drives consumer choice and civic action.<\/em><\/p>\n

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