{"id":24359,"date":"2018-08-17T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/?p=24359"},"modified":"2018-08-30T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T12:42:47","slug":"monsanto-ordered-to-pay-289m-damages-in-roundup-cancer-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2018\/08\/monsanto-ordered-to-pay-289m-damages-in-roundup-cancer-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289m Damages In Roundup Cancer Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>NEWS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m in damages to a former school groundsman who says working with herbicides containing glyphosate caused him to develop cancer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>COMMENT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Predictably, Bayer, the former member of the IG Farben Cartel that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2018\/06\/monsanto-is-no-more-its-name-will-disappear-but-not-its-products\/\">recently bought Monsanto<\/a>, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-45154362\">denying<\/a> that glyphosate causes cancer. However, the toxic chemical has already been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iarc.fr\/en\/media-centre\/iarcnews\/pdf\/MonographVolume112.pdf\">cited<\/a> by the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as being \u201cprobably carcinogenic to humans.\u201d In a monograph published in March 2015, IARC specifically noted that its classification of the chemical had followed a \u201ccomprehensive review of the latest available scientific evidence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Long term, with literally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/features\/roundups-289m-cancer-verdict-opens-up-floodgates-for-thousands-of-other-lawsuits\">thousands of other lawsuits<\/a> lined up whose claimants are similarly saying that using glyphosate caused them to develop cancer, the outcome of this case could potentially have set an important precedent. Meantime, with Monsanto saying it intends to appeal the ruling, the fight seems set to go on.<\/p>\n<a class=\"button  button_size_2 button_js\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-45152546\" target=\"_blank\"    ><span class=\"button_label\">Read article on the BBC News website (UK)<\/span><\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m in damages to a former school groundsman who says working with herbicides containing glyphosate caused him<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[122],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289m Damages In Roundup Cancer Trial - Dr. Rath Health Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-rath-foundation.org\/2018\/08\/monsanto-ordered-to-pay-289m-damages-in-roundup-cancer-trial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289m Damages In Roundup Cancer Trial - 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