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Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world's first Roundup cancer trial

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Lola:

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(Reuters) - A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.

The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer. Monsanto, a unit of Bayer AG following a $62.5 billion acquisition by the German conglomerate, faces more than 5,000 similar lawsuits across the United States.

The jury at San Francisco's Superior Court of California deliberated for three days before finding that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weed killers.
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https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1KV2HB?__twitter_impression=true

Middle Child:
Yep.  And this is only the beginning.

Pookie:
sarcasmalert   Couldn't happen to a nicer company. 

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