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.
化学巨头孟山都公司已被命令向一名声称含有草甘膦的除草剂导致其癌症的男子支付2.89亿美元赔偿金。在一个具有里程碑意义的案例中，一位加利福尼亚州的陪审团发现，孟山都公司知道其Roundup和RangerPro除草剂是危险的，并未能向消费者发出警告。这是第一起诉讼指控草甘膦与癌症有关的诉讼。孟山都否认草甘膦会导致癌症，并表示它打算对该裁决提出上诉。
案件中的申请人Dewayne Johnson是全美5000多名类似的原告。约翰逊先生于2014年被诊断出患有非霍奇金淋巴瘤。他的律师说他在加利福尼亚州贝尼西亚的一所学校工作时经常使用RangerPro。陪审员周五发现，该公司采取了“恶意行为”，其威力杀手对约翰逊先生的绝症做出了“重大贡献”。
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