in march of 2015, the international agency research on cancer, which is the cancer research arm of the world health organization, issued a report published in lancet oncology. which declared that the glyphosate contained in roundup probably causes cancer in humans. glyphosate was also added to california's list of known human carcinogens, effective july 7, 2017, according to the office of environmental health hazard assessment. and in new york, monsanto agreed to stop falsely advertising roundup weed killer as safe when studies indicate otherwise. - i'm thinking there must be a number of lawsuits that have been filed as a result of the problems with roundup. - oh, you're thinking right, tony, there have been. in fact, the latest number of roundup glyphosate related lawsuits have ballooned to over 8,000 after a san francisco jury in august 2018 awarded 289 million dollars to a former groundskeeper who was diagnosed with non-hodgkin's lymphoma. now after denying monsanto's motion for a new trial, the final award was eventually reduced to 78.5 million dollars in october of 2018, this is s

one lobby group claimed he was biased and i agree with the international agency for research on cancers review that concluded that there was evidence some evidence that live a say was seated with none hodgkin's lymphoma and that people exposed to the life of say. without their formal panel consultant peter infante the e.p.a. renewed life a state's license despite negative classification which bayer continues to dispute . there's going to be a mischaracterization of remarkable tool that needs to stay in farm hands it was going to be dispersed in a fashion that was inappropriate and we're preparing to make sure the public understand understands the safety of life straight i think there are strongly valid reasons to do that. yeah i. do. with their marriage to monsanto managers at bayers headquarters and live a commission didn't just acquire roundup and its estimated annual sales of some 3500000000 euros they also adopted monsanto's defense of the main ingredient. music and enough before and as we remain convinced that glyphosate is a safe product. based on all this information the board of

on for an eye arc review. why concerned the international agency for research on cancer is totally independent its verdict carries weight. york as part of the world health organization which in turn is a specialized agency of the united nations australian professor lynne fritchey was on the panel of experts who study glyphosate ever since she's been targeted with harsh criticism from the agricultural industry. people can trust our case is an institution that has been doing this for a long time there are transparent procedures as to what. the groups need to do the groups are the best people in the world in this area they have no conflicts of interest and they look at their literature that available publicly that peer reviewed that high quality and come up with a decision by our classified life or so it has probably carcinogenic to humans and yet life has remained on the market. lynne fritchey says monsanto's response to the findings was highly derogatory you know why that seems to imply that we did this on purpose that we were out to get money lifecycle monsanto and that's not the case we were there to follow i ax