Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s marquee product, Roundup, is coming under fire from hundreds of legal challenges across the U.S., with individuals alleging that the herbicide is carcinogenic and linked to cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n
Whether the cases pay out for plaintiffs remains to be seen. But at the very least, they represent a big opportunity for litigators, with some thinking \u201cglyphosate\u201d could become a legal buzzword on par with asbestos.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey certainly do see these Roundup cases as following the trajectories of asbestos, PCBs, and tobacco,\u201d said Carey Gillam, a director of the consumer group U.S. Right to Know, who is following the cases and has researched Monsanto for years. \u201cThey see thousands and thousands of potential plaintiffs, not just in the U.S., but around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Litigators working on the cases say the basis for the allegations is a 2015 report issued by the World Health Organization\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer that concluded \u201cthere was limited evidence of carcinogenicity\u201d associating glyphosate with lymphoma, the cancer of the immune system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen IARC says something is carcinogenic, it\u2019s generally carcinogenic,\u201d said Tim Litzenburg, an attorney with The Miller Firm, a Virginia-based law office filing many of the cases. \u201cThey\u2019re the authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
Between state and federal courts, Litzenburg says hundreds of cases have already been filed in the U.S., but he believes that total will balloon over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s marquee product, Roundup, is coming under fire from hundreds of legal challenges across the U.S., with individuals alleging that the herbicide is carcinogenic and linked to cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":55279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n