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http://www.dw.com/en/monsanto-pushes-against-california-listing-of-herbicide-as-cancer-cause/a-18794383The agricultural giant Monsanto has urged California not to list herbicide glyphosate as carcinogenic. Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicides and many other products across the world.
Monsanto pushes against California listing of herbicide as cancer cause
Darko Janjevic
21.10.2015
The multinational company filed its comments on the proposed list on Tuesday, saying that California regulators were not considering valid scientific evidence.
Earlier, California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced a plan to list glyphosate under Proposition 65, state legislature informing residents about cancer-causing chemicals.
OEHHA said that their move was prompted by the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research committee. The global organization classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in March.
However, Monsanto said that state's actions could be considered illegal for not taking all valid data into account.
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Monsanto pushes against California listing of herbicide as cancer cause (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Oct 2015
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(7,830 posts)1. Lawsuits Mount Against Monsanto’s ‘Cancer-Causing’ Weedkiller
.......A new lawsuit was filed in Delaware Superior Court on Wednesday by three law firms representing three plaintiffs. According to Reuters, plaintiff Joselin Barrera, 24, a child of migrant farm workers, claims her non-Hodgkin lymphoma stemmed from exposure to glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsantos used weedkiller, Roundup. The other name on the suit, former migrant farm worker and landscaper Elias de la Garza, was also diagnosed with the same disease and has similar claims about the toxicity of the herbicide.
The new lawsuit is similar to Enrique Rubio v. Monsanto Company and Fitzgerald v. Monsanto Company, which were filed on the same day, Sept. 22, in Los Angeles and New York respectively. In these suits, former field worker Enrique Rubio (who has bone cancer) and horticultural assistant Judi Fitzgerald (who has leukemia) both claim that exposure to Roundup caused their diseases, and that Monsanto falsified data and led a prolonged campaign of misinformation to convince the public, farm workers and government agencies about the safety of the product.
U.S. lawsuits build against Monsanto over alleged Roundup cancer link http://t.co/06Zd3R9sxj
carey gillam (@careygillam) October 15, 2015
The suits come after the World Health Organizations infamous report in March declaring that glyphosate was probably carcinogenic to humans. Following that, in September, Californias Environmental Protection Agency issued plans to list glyphosate as known to cause cancer.
While EcoWatch was informed by Monsantos spokeswoman Charla Lord that Fitzgeralds suit was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in New York, yesterday we learned that the Fitzgerald case was added to the recently filed Delaware suit.
When EcoWatch contacted Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm representing Fitzgerald, Robin Greenwald, the head of the firms environmental law unit, told us: For clarification, we added Ms. Fitzgerald to a complaint we filed in Delaware. So we dismissed the suit in New York and refiled in Delaware state court, closer to her home and where Monsanto is incorporated.
Monsanto has demanded a retraction of the WHO report and will vigorously defend itself against the lawsuits.
Decades of experience within agriculture and regulatory reviews using the most extensive worldwide human health databases ever compiled on an agricultural product contradict the claims in the suit which will be vigorously defended, Lord said last month.
It appears, however, more and more plaintiffs are lining up to make cases against the embattled agribusiness giant, which is facing slumping earnings and recently announced it will eliminate 12 percent of its workforce.
https://ecowatch.com/2015/10/16/lawsuits-monsanto-cancer-roundup/
The new lawsuit is similar to Enrique Rubio v. Monsanto Company and Fitzgerald v. Monsanto Company, which were filed on the same day, Sept. 22, in Los Angeles and New York respectively. In these suits, former field worker Enrique Rubio (who has bone cancer) and horticultural assistant Judi Fitzgerald (who has leukemia) both claim that exposure to Roundup caused their diseases, and that Monsanto falsified data and led a prolonged campaign of misinformation to convince the public, farm workers and government agencies about the safety of the product.
U.S. lawsuits build against Monsanto over alleged Roundup cancer link http://t.co/06Zd3R9sxj
carey gillam (@careygillam) October 15, 2015
The suits come after the World Health Organizations infamous report in March declaring that glyphosate was probably carcinogenic to humans. Following that, in September, Californias Environmental Protection Agency issued plans to list glyphosate as known to cause cancer.
While EcoWatch was informed by Monsantos spokeswoman Charla Lord that Fitzgeralds suit was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in New York, yesterday we learned that the Fitzgerald case was added to the recently filed Delaware suit.
When EcoWatch contacted Weitz & Luxenberg, the law firm representing Fitzgerald, Robin Greenwald, the head of the firms environmental law unit, told us: For clarification, we added Ms. Fitzgerald to a complaint we filed in Delaware. So we dismissed the suit in New York and refiled in Delaware state court, closer to her home and where Monsanto is incorporated.
Monsanto has demanded a retraction of the WHO report and will vigorously defend itself against the lawsuits.
Decades of experience within agriculture and regulatory reviews using the most extensive worldwide human health databases ever compiled on an agricultural product contradict the claims in the suit which will be vigorously defended, Lord said last month.
It appears, however, more and more plaintiffs are lining up to make cases against the embattled agribusiness giant, which is facing slumping earnings and recently announced it will eliminate 12 percent of its workforce.
https://ecowatch.com/2015/10/16/lawsuits-monsanto-cancer-roundup/