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EPA official hid cancer study for Monsanto, lawsuit reveals
A former Environmental Protection Agency official believes he deserves a medal for helping agribusiness giant Monsanto hide the results of a study allegedly linking the company’s products to cancer.
The news comes by way of a recently unsealed brief in the largest national lawsuit against Monsanto over allegations that its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
The documents show that former EPA pesticide division manager Jess Rowland was able to successfully kill research linking the weed killer to negative health effects, reportedly bragging to a company executive that he deserved “a medal” if he could kill further studies.
As reported by Bloomberg:
The boast was made during an April 2015 phone conversation, according to farmers and others who say they’ve been sickened by the weed killer. After leaving his job as a manager in the EPA’s pesticide division last year, Jess Rowland has become a central figure in more than 20 lawsuits in the U.S. accusing the company of failing to warn consumers and regulators of the risk that its glyphosate-based herbicide can cause non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
“If I can kill this I should get a medal,” Rowland told a Monsanto regulatory affairs manager who recounted the conversation in an email to his colleagues, according to a court filing made public Tuesday. The company was seeking Rowland’s help stopping an investigation of glyphosate by a separate office, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, that is part of the U.S. Health and Human Service Department, according to the filing.
Monsanto, of course, says the email provides proof of nothing.
“Plucking a single email out of context doesn’t change the fact that the U.S. EPA and regulators around the world… have concluded that glyphosate is unlikely to pose a carcinogenic risk to humans,” the company said in a statement.
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Source: http://freedombunker.com/2017/03/21/epa-official-hid-cancer-study-for-monsanto-lawsuit-reveals/
