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By: Dr. Chuck Benbrook Many people ask me — Why the big punitive damage awards in the Roundup-Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL) litigation? Easy answer — Monsanto’s (now Bayer’s) lousy product “stewardship” behavior. Company representatives and others up and down the herbicide supply chain have been reassuring Roundup users for almost a half-century that Roundup is as […]
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The unfolding litigation over the contribution of Roundup use and exposure to over 100,000 cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in the U.S. has been one of the biggest food and ag stories worldwide for a couple of years now. Just a few weeks ago, Bayer/Monsanto announced a $10 billion-plus settlement of a majority of the […]
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On June 3, 2020, a three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the EPA failed to acknowledge the risks associated with over-the-top (OTT) dicamba applications and did not recognize the seriousness of reports of drift damage (OTT applications are sprayed directly over the herbicide-resistant crops during the growing […]
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Hygeia Note — The below email was sent to a group of individuals on June 1, 2020 by Lou Nelms, and is posted here with his permission. Words in [brackets] were added by Hygeia for clarity. Nelms has monitored the impact of dicamba and 2,4-D use, drift, and volatilization in Illinois since the beginning of […]
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I am flabbergasted at this decision. There is NOTHING — ZERO — in the EPA decision to reduce worker exposures and risks. How can EPA ignore the thousands of comments, including my own, highlighting the need for EPA to recover its spine and require Bayer/Monsanto and other registrants to take out the high-risk surfactants in […]
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Chuck Benbrook was invited to the Sustainable Ag Expo and International Winegrape Summit in San Luis Obispo November 11-13, 2019. He was asked to bring grape growers in California up-to-date on the Roundup-non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) litigation, possible impacts on the availability of Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides, and critical challenges ahead for Bayer in addressing […]
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The next chapter in the ongoing legal battle over Roundup and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) may unfold in a courtroom in Nebraska, according to a September 3, 2019 piece in the Omaha World-Herald. The Honorable Vince Chhabria is overseeing the Multi-District Litigation (MDL) in a Federal court in San Francisco. This MDL encompasses several hundred plaintiffs […]
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The public comment period on EPA’s proposed re-registration of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) closed on September 3, 2019. The Agency has received well over 300,000 comments, including 31-pages worth from Hygeia’s Dr. Charles Benbrook. Benbrook’s submitted comments draw on his work over many years on the impact of GBH use on weed management systems and herbicide […]
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Page A20 of the June 11, 2019 Wall Street Journal is a full page “Roundup is safe” advertisement by Bayer. It begins — “Tested for 40 years. Approved for 40 years. Used safely for 40 years.” We’ve posted an image snapped with an iPhone from our copy of the WSJ at the bottom of the post […]
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The verdict in the latest Roundup cancer trial is in, and it is a really, really big deal. Two billion dollars big, in fact. This news is so huge, even People magazine is covering it. For the third time in a year, a jury has ruled that the glyphosate in Roundup herbicides contributed to plaintiffs’ […]
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