Journal Neo. 15.08.2018
A jury trial in California has
resulted in a guilty verdict against the agrichemical and GMO giant,
Monsanto, now Bayer/Monsanto. The judge has ordered Monsanto to pay
damages of USD 289 Million to former school groundskeeper Dewayne
Johnson, who has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His lawyer argued it was caused
by Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weed-killer Roundup.
Not surprisingly Monsanto plans to appeal the verdict. The impact of
the ruling, regardless the outcome of the appeal, will unleash worldwide
consequences that spell huge problems for the entire GMO agrochemicals
business model.
The Johnson trial, Dewayne Johnson v.
Monsanto Co., CGC-16-550128, in California Superior Court in San
Francisco,is the first of more than 5,000 such cases across the United
States awaiting trial for claims that Roundup ingredients cause cancer.
Johnson, age 46, is a former pest
control manager for a California county school system, where he applied
Roundup and Monsanto’s Ranger Pro on school grounds across the county up
to 30 times per year for more than two and a half years.
According to the magazine Insurance Journal,
the guilty verdict could influence the outcome of thousands of similar
cases against Monsanto glyphosate-based Roundup. Notably, the same law
firm, California-based Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC is
involved as part of the legal team in many of the other cases awaiting trial.
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