Monsanto found liable for causing man’s cancer in landmark case

Published August 11, 2018 12:47am ET



A California jury on Friday found agriculture business giant Monsanto liable for causing a groundskeeper’s cancer in the world’s first ruling on the health effects of the popular weed killer Roundup.

The Superior Court jury emerged from three days of deliberations to find the global company failed to warn a school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weed killers containing the chemical herbicide glyphosate.

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