Plaintiffs Charles and Sandra H. have filed a Monsanto Roundup lawsuit against the makers of the popular weed killer alleging Charles suffered severe adverse effects after using the product, including the development of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

According to the Monsanto Roundup lawsuit filed on Jan. 31, 2018, in Missouri federal court, the plaintiffs allege that Charles’s exposure to Roundup directly contributed to his cancer development.

Charles, an Indiana resident, says that he purchased Roundup for agricultural use on or around the 1990s. He became diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2016. The Monsanto Roundup lawsuit alleges multiple claims including design defect; failure to warn; negligence; fraud, misrepresentation, suppression; and violation of consumer protection laws.

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According to the Monsanto Roundup lawsuit, the accusations against defendant Monsanto Company say that the product’s main herbicidal property, glyphosate, is linked to the development of cancer such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The lawsuit states that on July 29, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a formal monograph classifying glyphosate as probably carcinogenic to humans. Yet, the lawsuit contends, that the company continues to market Roundup as “safe to humans and the environment.”

Further accusations against the company assert that they have known for decades that they “falsely advertise[] the safety of Roundup.” For example, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) filed a lawsuit in 1996 against the Monsanto Company challenging the company’s representations that its “spray-on glyphosate-based herbicide” was “safer than table salt” and “practically non-toxic.” The lawsuit discovered that those claims were misleading and deceptive.

Because of Roundup’s alleged link to causing cancer, there have been more than 1,100 lawsuits filed in state and federal court, with gardeners and laborers being most affected. In addition to the IARC’s categorization of glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic,” the United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) have also announced their own concerns regarding the chemical.

According to the EPA, “glyphosate ranks high among pesticides causing illness or injury to workers, who report numerous incidents of eye and skin irritation from splashes during mixing and loading.” The lawsuit further maintains that according to the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, in 1995 among California agricultural workers, “glyphosate was the third most commonly-reported cause of pesticide illness.”

According to the Monsanto Lawsuit, countries around the world have banned the sale of Roundup and other herbicides that contain glyphosate. For example, the Netherlands banned the sale of “glyphosate-based herbicides” in April 2014. This includes the sale of Roundup. Additionally, following the IARC’s glyphosate assessment, the sale of Roundup was also banned in France. Roundup was also banned in both commercial and private sale in Bermuda. According to the Bermuda government, “Following a recent scientific study carried out by a leading cancer agency, the importation of weed spray ‘Roundup’ has been suspended.”

The Monsanto Lawsuit is Case No. 4:18-cv-00149-CDP, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division.

If you or a loved one developed cancer after using Roundup as a farm worker or home gardener, you may have a legal claim. Legal migrant farm workers may also seek help. Learn more by filling out the form on this page for a FREE case evaluation.

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