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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12085
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment

Pesticides authorisation - Éric Andrieu says EU is not expected to ignore Californian trial against Monsanto

The EU and the European Parliament’s special PEST Committee will not be ignoring the results of the Californian trial which, on 10 August, ordered Monsanto to pay around $289 million to the gardener Dewayne Johnson. Mr Johnson is a cancer victim, which he says was due to his exposure for a number of years to herbicides containing glyphosate, explained Éric Andrieu MEP (S&D, France), on Thursday 30 August in Brussels. 

Whilst addressing the press, he expressed the same ideas, following...

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