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Cereal killers: Monsanto weedkiller that can ‘probably’ cause cancer found in children’s breakfasts
August 16, 2018 11:00 am
CALIFORNIA, Aug 16: Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, a weedkiller manufactured by Monsanto. Roundup is the most popular weedkiller in the US, and last week a court in California ordered the company to pay $39 million in compensation and $250 million in punitive damages to a school groundskeeper who developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after years of using Roundup at work.
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