Monsanto now facing wave of chemical negligence lawsuits over glyphosate (Roundup) and cancer deaths

Friday, May 20, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: Amy Goodrich
NaturalNews.com
Friday, May 20, 2016

Teri McCall, the widow of a prominent farmer from Cambria, California, has just filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Monsanto Co. Anthony Jackson ‘Jack’ McCall, 69, died December 26, of terminal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, after using Roundup weed killer on his 20-acre fruit and vegetable farm for nearly 30 years.

According to a press release from the law firm, Jack McCall was admitted to a hospital in September 2015, to treat swollen lymph nodes in his neck. The same day they found out that Jack, a man who had never smoked, stayed fit and had no history of cancer in his family, had a rare and aggressive version of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Teri McCall is one of the plaintiffs in more than a dozen recently filed lawsuits that claim that the active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, gave them, or their loved ones, cancer, though Monsanto knows that the substance poses significant risks to human health, including an increased risk of causing several types of cancer.

Only recently, glyphosate was declared as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). They found that non-Hodgkin lymphoma, among other haematopoietic cancers that affect the blood, bone marrow, lymph and lymphatic system, are the cancers most associated with glyphosate exposure.

Following the IARC’s decision, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment issued plans in September 2016 to add glyphosate to the state’s list of carcinogenic chemicals, making it the first state in the U.S. to do so.

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