A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit into the potentially cancerous effects of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller is considering a plan to exclude all regulatory findings on the safety of glyphosate from the first phase of an upcoming trial. San Francisco District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is presiding over a case against the company in US, said he was considering implementing a bifurcated trial process, with the initial phase dealing purely with the question of whether glyphosate was capable of causing cancer in the plaintiff.
A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit into the potentially cancerous effects of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller is considering a plan to exclude all regulatory findings on the safety of glyphosate from the first phase of an upcoming trial. US District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is presiding over a case against the company in San Francisco, said he was considering implementing a bifurcated trial process, with the initial phase dealing purely with the question of whether glyphosate was capable of causing cancer in the plaintiff.