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. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has agreed to hear arguments in a case brought by environmental groups and others who say that Monsanto should be barred from using its best-selling herbicide
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.