Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million in damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer. In a landmark case, a Californian jury found that Monsanto knew its Roundup and RangerPro weedkillers were dangerous and failed to warn consumers. It's the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging a glyphosate link to cancer. Monsanto denies that glyphosate causes cancer and says it intends to appeal against the ruling.
The claimant in the case, groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, is among more than 5,000 similar plaintiffs across the US. Mr Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2014. His lawyers said he regularly used a form of RangerPro while working at a school in Benicia, California. Jurors found on Friday that the company had acted with "malice" and that its weedkillers contributed "substantially" to Mr Johnson's terminal illness.
化學巨頭孟山都公司已被命令向一名聲稱含有草甘膦的除草劑導致其癌症的男子支付2.89億美元賠償金。在一個具有里程碑意義的案例中，一位加利福尼亞州的陪審團發現，孟山都公司知道其Roundup和RangerPro除草劑是危險的，並未能向消費者發出警告。這是第一起訴訟指控草甘膦與癌症有關的訴訟。孟山都否認草甘膦會導致癌症，並表示它打算對該裁決提出上訴。
案件中的申請人Dewayne Johnson是全美5000多名類似的原告。約翰遜先生於2014年被診斷出患有非霍奇金淋巴瘤。他的律師說他在加利福尼亞州貝尼西亞的一所學校工作時經常使用RangerPro。陪審員週五發現，該公司採取了“惡意行為”，其威力殺手對約翰遜先生的絕症做出了“重大貢獻”。
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