SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for a man who said his cancer was caused by Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup on Tuesday urged U.S. jurors to “send a message” to the company by holding it liable and awarding millions in damages.
“A responsible company would test its product. A responsible company would tell their customers if they knew it causes cancer,” Aimee Wagstaff, a lawyer for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman, said during closing arguments on Tuesday. She called conduct by Bayer’s Monsanto unit reckless and offensive. The decision allowed the trial to proceed to a second phase in which the same jury will decide if Bayer is liable.
Brian Stekloff, a lawyer for Bayer, on Tuesday said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency , which regulates herbicides, never removed Roundup from the market or required a cancer warning.
There are so many cancer causing chemicals out there how would they know what chemical or even genetics that caused his cancer.
'The EPA, the European Chemicals Agency and other regulators have found that glyphosate is not likely carcinogenic to humans. The World Health Organization’s cancer arm, however, reached a different conclusion in 2015, classifying glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
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