The US Supreme Court sided with Roundup-maker Bayer, significantly reducing the company’s exposure to thousands of pending lawsuits about harm caused by the herbicide.
In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court said federal herbicide law prevents state-law cases from claiming the company failed to war consumers Roundup could cause cancer.
Roundup is a glyphosate-based herbicide that was originally developed by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, said the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act pre-empts state-law claims the company failed to warn consumers about the herbicide’s potential harmful effects.
The Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer.
“As demonstrated by that comprehensive regulatory regime, EPA possesses a variety of tools to learn of and address new safety information,” Kavanaugh wrote.
He added that state law cannot impose additional labeling requirements.
The Trump administration supported Bayer’s position, arguing that states should not be able to undermine federal pesticide regulations.
The Supreme Court ruling overturns a landmark case in Missouri that saw $1.25 million awarded to a man who claimed he developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after exposure to Roundup.
Bayer has already paid out billions of dollars to settle claims relating to harms caused by glyphosate.
The Supreme Court did not rule on whether Roundup actually causes cancer, only on whether states should be allowed to force the manufacturer to include warnings on packaging.
Glyphosate, the most widely used pesticide in the US, has been linked to aggressive forms of cancer, as well as other harms.
When a large-scale study of glyphosate in urine samples was carried out, 80.2% of Americans over the age of six had detectable levels of the chemical in their samples.
A study of pregnant women from the Midwest, where glyphosate is used most extensively for agriculture, showed that 99% of the women surveyed had it in their bodies.
Glyphosate has been shown to cross the placental barrier during pregnancy, and is found in cord blood after birth.
Glyphosate was also discovered in the semen of French men at concentrations four times higher than in the blood. Seventy-three of 128 men tested as part of the study had the chemical in their seminal fluid.
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Is Operation Paper Clip still in effect today?????
Stupid Amerikans will still use it.
Crime pays.
Evil wins.
Trumps executive order grants total immunity to Monsanto they can’t be prosecuted – “This executive order is another corrupt giveaway to the pesticide industry, and people have a right to know who pushed for it behind the scenes. The pesticide industry is doing everything they can to avoid accountability for the harms their products have caused across this country, and the only reason this administration is hiding these important records is that they will almost certainly show just how deeply the poison-makers’ influence permeates the Trump government.” Brett Hartl. In the EU Ramazzini tested Trumps Roundup the results are bad but the EU ignored them as have Trumps EPA. Key details regarding the Ramazzini findings:Tested Formulations: The study tested pure glyphosate, Roundup Bioflow (EU), and RangerPro (US) at equivalent doses of 0.5, 5, and 50 mg/kg of body weight per day.Affected Areas: Elevated tumor rates were observed in rats in multiple organ systems, including early-onset leukemia, skin, liver, thyroid, nervous system, and kidneys. This stuff is poison and Bayer are paying out 18 billion for 200000 lawsuit settlements and this stuff is in foods its in your granola bar!
Honorable mention: Categories of GM seeds were specifically developed so entire fields (1000s of acres in every state) can be saturated with glyphosate and the only life that survives is the GM plants. To question the safety of glyphosate is to question the safety, ethicacy and necessity of GM seeds which regulators are bribed NOT to do.
yall.mfrs know bayer made mustard gas im ww1 and zyclon b in ww2?????
faucie still breathes
check the spcoutus banks accounts, before they went in and now and then ceck currentvbank accounts,
ohhhh , gee whiz, we cant do that
Its more proof government was always the enemy of the people.
Weed spray destroys our gut bacteria which is our immune system. Its more population control.
By Way of Truth thou shalt do war. Exemptincome . org
DJT Nov 2016, “Mr and Mrs America, you are going to be so tired of winning, you are going to say, please Mr tRump, no more winning, we are tired of it!!!”
This is what progress looks like!
Wait wrong story, this is what a corrupt government who accepts bribes from the corporate food and pharmaceutical industries looks like!
Go ahead, tell me how much Trump cares about American citizens instead of enriching himself and his family. He is a disgrace, beyond evil, just as bad or worse than a Clinton, Bush, Obama, or Biden, but they are all cut from the same cloth.
Before the switcheroo, he was doing a lot of good, after the old switcheroo, I can’t stand looking at him
3 time Trump Voter
America First
NOT in the cult
When he made the total commitment to Israel instead of America and targeted the representatives who were true believers in his “MAGA”, “America First” catch phrases for elimination from the administration, the jig was up and the mask was off for good.
He is a FRAUD and just a better LIAR than his predecessors.