By Carey Gillam A highly anticipated Roundup cancer trial set to start later this month in the St. Louis area has been pulled from the docket, a court official said on Wednesday. The trial, which was to pit a woman named Sharlean Gordon against Roundup maker Monsanto Co., was to start Jan. 27 in St. […]
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria announced his ruling in San Francisco on Monday. Chhabria reduced the amount that Germany’s Bayer AG has to pay the claimant to .27 million (€22.4 million). Bayer bought Roundup maker Monsanto for billion last year. Following a four-week trial in March a federal jury awarded million (€4.4 million) in compensatory […]
A town council in Sydney says it will start to trial alternative herbicides after 500 workers went on strike due to safety concerns over glyphosate-based Roundup, according to the Australian Associated Press. The outdoor staff in Blacktown, a western suburb of Sydney, refused to continue spraying glyphosate and urged management to follow the lead of […]
By Jessica Corbett Austria is on track to become the first country in the European Union (EU) to fully ban the world’s most commonly used herbicide after the nation’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw all uses of glyphosate, which researchers and global health experts have tied to cancer. “The […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her country’s lower house of government that use of the controversial herbicide glyphosate will eventually die out, according to Reuters. Her new comments update steps she and her coalition government made to limit glyphosate use as a way to phase out its use and to put in new conditions and […]
Many best sellers in the cereal aisle continue to have trace amounts of the weed killer glyphosate, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The herbicide was detected in all 21 oat-based products. All but four of them contained levels of glyphosate higher than what EWG scientists deem safe […]
First Fort Myers banned plastic straws. Now it banned Roundup, or glyphosate, the controversial herbicide recently blamed for causing cancer by several juries, the News Press reports. Like the plastic straw ban, the driving force behind the ban was the health of Fort Myers’ waterways and marine resources. “This effort has all been about water […]
A third jury ruled that Monsanto‘s Roundup weedkiller caused cancer Monday, awarding a California couple more than $2 billion in damages. Not only is it the largest award in a Roundup trial to date, it is also the largest U.S. jury award this year and the eighth-largest product-defect award ever, Bloomberg reported. “We really wanted […]
Germany’s Bayer, which bought the U.S. agrochemical firm Monsanto, issued an apology on Sunday following reports that its American subsidiary drew up a list of those critical of the firm’s practices. “After an initial analysis, we understand that such a project raised concerns and criticism,” Bayer said in a statement. “This is not the way […]
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