June 2015 — Monsanto’s U.S. Agency Lead for Regulatory Affairs, Daniel Jenkins, told his colleagues that ATSDR had officially stopped their glyphosate assessment until after the EPA released its preliminary risk assessment. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer Safety, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/roundup/
Continue ReadingApril 2015 — Emails and text messages revealed that in April 2015, Monsanto started communicating with high-level officials from numerous government agencies about one month after the IARC decision that negatively impacted its Roundup product by officially classifying glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen based on its review of published data. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates...
Continue ReadingApril 2015 — Between April 2015 and October 2015, five government employees at the EPA, the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) worked with Monsanto officials to slow the new glyphosate report that would potentially be released by ATSDR. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer...
Continue ReadingMarch 2015 — After the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reviewed published data investigating the association between glyphosate and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the agency classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in March 2015. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer Safety, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/roundup/
Continue Reading2015 — Monsanto started collaborating with the EPA in 2015 allegedly in order to stall a potentially negative report being written by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) according to documents. ATSDR had announced its plans to publish its review of glyphosate just before the publishing of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) International Agency for Research...
Continue Reading2015 — Chicago stopped spraying Roundup in public areas in 2015, recognizing the damage it caused. Additional Illinois cities with glyphosate bans or restrictions are Evanston, Franklin Park, Naperville, and Urbana. Reference: “Which Countries and U.S. States Are Banning Roundup?” Carlson Law Firm, 30 Dec. 2020, https://www.carlsonattorneys.com/news-and-update/banning-roundup/
Continue Reading2014 — A relationship between exposure to glyphosate and B cell lymphoma was found in 2014 after researchers studied 44 different scientific publications. The publications covered 32 years’ worth of data on non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and pesticide exposure. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer Safety, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/roundup/
Continue Reading2008 — Researchers concluded that glyphosate exposure doubled a person’s chances of developing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008 following a study of Swedish citizens who were exposed to a number of pesticides. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer Safety, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/roundup/.
Continue Reading2007 — Roundup became the most used herbicide in the U.S. by 2007. The result of Roundup’s rising popularity was Roundup Ready crops, which began hitting the market in the late 1990s. From the introduction of Roundup Ready crops through 2016, the global glyphosate usage increased by more than 15 times. The U.S. made up 72% of the usage...
Continue Reading1974 — Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup hit the market in 1974. Reference: Moncivais, Katy. “Roundup Cancer Lawsuit: 2020 Updates & Settlements.” Consumer Safety, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/roundup/
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