Basics of the Roundup Lawsuit
Over 4,000 cancer patients have sued in a number of state courts for failing to warn the public about the cancer risks associated with RoundUp, which is a glyphosate-based weedkiller. The International Agency for Research on Cancer had published a report describing glyphosate as a carcinogenic. However, the company involved has addressed the RoundUp lawsuit by continuing to deny that RoundUp is linked to cancer in humans even though glyphosate is the main active ingredient. The existing evidence that occupational exposure to glyphosate increases the human cancer risk is limited. Furthermore, there is no solid evidence that home use of glyphosate is linked...