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San Francisco Trial On Fluoride In Drinking Water

San Francisco Trial On Fluoride In Drinking Water

In the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco a trial in underway in a lawsuit in which the Environmental Protection Agency is being asked to put a ban on fluoride chemicals from the water supplies across the nation; the outcome could put an end to the common practice of …

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Monsanto/Bayer Hit With Another Hefty Verdict Against Roundup

Second Court Ruling Finds RoundUp To Cause Cancer

In a third recent California court decision involving Monsanto, a Bayer subsidiary, a couple was awarded more than $2 billion in a verdict against the company, saying that the weed killer Roundup had caused their cancer. The court ruled that the couple Alva and Alberta Pilliod contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma because of their use of the …

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Second Court Ruling Finds RoundUp To Cause Cancer

Second Court Ruling Finds RoundUp To Cause Cancer

An American jury in California has found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer to have caused cancer, representing a significant blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case. However, the unanimous jury decisions in San Francisco federal court was not a finding …

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