Monsanto was ordered on Wednesday to pay US$81 million to a U.S. retiree who accuses the agribusiness giant’s weedkiller Roundup of provoking his cancer. A San Francisco jury found the firm, which is owned by Bayer- German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company, had been “negligent by not using reasonable care” to warn of the risks of its product, ordering it to pay Edwin Hardeman US$75 million in punitive damages, US$5.6 million in compensation and US$200,000 for medical expenses. The jury also found that Roundup’s design was defective and that the product lacked sufficient warnings of potential risk.
Seventy-year-old Edwin Hardeman says he sprayed the widely used herbicide on his property for almost three decades and once got the product directly on his skin. He has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
— source telesurenglish.net, democracynow.org | 27 Mar 2019