20/January/21

 

Months after Bayer announced plans for a sweeping settlement of US Roundup cancer litigation, the owner of Monsanto continues to work to settle tens of thousands of claims brought by people suffering from cancer they say was caused by Monsanto’s weedkillers. Now one more case appears to have found closure, though the plaintiff did not live to see it. Lawyers for Jaime Alvarez Calderon agreed to a settlement offered by Bayer after US District Judge Vince Chhabria denied summary judgment in favour of Monsanto, allowing the case to move closer to a trial. The settlement will go to Alvarez’s sons because their 65-year-old father, a winery worker in Napa County, California, died just over a year ago from non-Hodgkin lymphoma he blamed on his work spraying Roundup around winery property. US Right to Know

 

 

Some people have expressed alarm at recent reports suggesting CRISPR crops aren’t GMOs in the eyes of France, or that France is challenging EU’s cautious gene-editing regulations. These stories all seem to derive from a Reuters report based on pro-GMO statements by France’s agriculture minister. But the minister cannot claim to speak for France. GMWatch