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“The agrochemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million to a former US school groundskeeper who was exposed frequently on the job to the Monsanto product Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world, and developed terminal cancer.

“It’s a case that hinged on something neither side could definitively prove or disprove: the possibility of a causal relationship between Dewayne Johnson’s Roundup use and his subsequent illness.

“As a pest-control manager for a school district in northern California from 2012 to 2016, Johnson used Roundup 20 to 30 times per year.

“He experienced two on-the-job accidents that doused him from head to toe with a product whose active ingredient, glyphosate, the World Health Organization classifies as a probable carcinogen.”

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