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[A jury in San Francisco told agribusiness
giant Monsanto it must pay $250m in punitive damages and $39m in compensatory damages after the firm lost a legal case. The court was told Dewayne Johnson has a terminal form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma which he claims he caught after working as a pest control manager at a school.] Giant company Monsanto (Bayer) is fighting this as loads of other Americans also have a cancer (they claim) from using Round Up weed killer. https://news.sky.com/story/groundsma...maker-11469710 [Monsanto, a subsidiary of German firm Bayer AG, has denied glyphosate is linked to cancer, saying hundreds of studies have found the product to be safe.] Will weed killer sells slow down? [UK Homebase reviewing weedkillers after US cancer lawsuit The maker of Roundup is ordered to pay $289m to a dying groundsman who says the product contributed to his cancer.] https://news.sky.com/story/homebase-...wsuit-11470351 Last edited by arista; 11-08-2018 at 07:06 PM. |
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