Monsanto plans to vigorously defend its Roundup herbicide and will appeal a California court decision linking the product to cancer.
A jury in San Francisco Superior Court has awarded a former school groundskeeper who has cancer $289 million-dollars after finding that Monsanto failed to warn him of the dangers posed by his use of glyphosate-based Roundup.
Monsanto vice president Scott Partridge said in a statement while the company is sympathetic to the plaintiff and his family, the initial verdict does not change the fact that more than 800 scientific studies and reviews, as well as conclusions by the EPA, National Institutes of Health, and regulatory authorities around the world, support the fact that glyphosate does not cause cancer.
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