The $289-million verdict against Monsanto doesn’t prove Roundup causes cancer
Saturday, August 11, 2018
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This is a case that relies on something that cannot prove or prove absolutely: a possible causal relationship between the use of Dewayne Johnson Roundup and the subsequent disease.
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As a pest control manager for the school district in northern California from 2012 to 2016, Johnson uses Roundup 20 to 30 times a year. He has two work accidents that cause it from head to toe with products whose active ingredients, glyphosate, the World Health Organization classifies the possibility of carcinogens.
In 2014, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a disease that causes malignant wounds on his skin. Johnson is now 46. His doctor expects him to die within six months. Johnson's physical pain cannot be denied, as is the difficulty that his family carries. His wife now works two full-time jobs to support their partner and their two sons.
The case also reveals a difficult and important truth: It is almost impossible to definitively determine the specific causes of each cancer case. In the absence of certainty, judges and judges — like those who might review legal claims awaiting 4,000-plus against Monsanto by people who believe that Roundup causes their cancer — must weigh the issue of making responsibility and marketers of products that have the potential of material - Material dangerous available to people who use it.
What is Monsanto blaming
The active ingredient in Roundup is glyphosate. In 2015, the year after Johnson's diagnosis, the International Agency for Research on Cancer Research of the World Health Organization was classified as glucose as a Group 2A ingredient, which means it may be carcinogenic to humans. Categories include dozens of other industrial chemicals, as well as the release of high-temperature frying, chemical exposure submitted to work as a hairdresser, and the use of red meat.
Monsanto argued strongly in court that there was no scientific consensus on whether glyphosate causes cancer, which is true. No definitive study proves that glyphosate causes cancer. The US Environmental Protection Agency states that chemicals are safe to use.
Whether Johnson has cancer because his relationship with Roundup is not possible for doctors or lawyers to prove it is not proven because Monsanto protested. In contrast, Johnson's legal team must convince the jury of two things: Roundup can cause cancer, and Monsanto fails to warn consumers about the potential risk of a product.
The lawyers produced an internal e-mail that showed Monsanto executives downgrading critical research on glyphosate health effects and attempting to fund research in depth to support the product.
Following the decision, Vice President Monsanto Scott Partridge said in a statement that the company would "continue to defend this product, which has a 40-year history of safe use and continues to be an important, effective and safe tool for farmers and others. "The future of Roundup is a bit of a question of whether to remain on the shelf — which is almost certain to be — from what looks like when it happened.
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