Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation
Aug. 31, 2022
Monsanto blames ‘fraudulent’ lab for clearing glyphosate
The agricultural biotech giant claimed that the chemical at issue, glyphosate, was deemed to not cause cancer in humans and that laboratories the company had tapped to conduct toxicity testing had defrauded them.
In new court filings Tuesday, Monsanto denied allegations that it knowingly created Roundup, the popular weed killing spray, with cancer-causing chemicals, citing friendly EPA findings and alleged fraudulent toxicity testing by laboratories as its main defense.
Monsanto’s answers are in response to the sixth wave of individual complaints brought against the company that originally fell under the massive multidistrict litigation that includ...
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