Neither he nor his doctors knew if he would live long enough to make it through to this day. But Dewayne Johnson, 46, has a non-Hodgkin lymphoma will be the first cancer patient to see his complaint against the giant Monsanto go to court. After technical deliberations, the trial has just started in California State Court and may well set a precedent for the hundreds of other complaints that lie ahead.
This gardener, whose lesions cover 80% of his body, was employed in the maintenance of the gardens of the school district of Benicia, a municipality east of San Francisco. For two years, he regularly mixed and sprayed Round up (a glyphosate weedkiller) on green spaces. And it is this regular spreading which, according to him, has caused her cancer.
Classified as probable carcinogen by IARC
He is not the only one to point the finger the dangerousness of the pesticide which has been classified as probable carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Since his complaint, hundreds of other patients also with non-Hodgkin lymphoma have made similar claims. And his lawyer now represents “over 2,000 people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma who have used Roundup extensively“.
Statements that Monsanto (acquired by the Bayer laboratory) refutes: “We empathize with everyone who suffers from cancer, but the scientific evidence clearly shows that glyphosate is not the cause.” said the spokesperson of the firm on CNN.
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