Weedkiller Maker moves to settle a claim on Parkinson’s disease claims Herbal pesticides
Surrounded by thousands of lawsuits that claim that Paraquat Weedkiller caused Parkinson’s disease, the manufacturer, Centusta, concluded an agreement aimed at settling large areas of these claims.
The court file confirmed on Monday that an agreement was signed between the two parties. In a court hearing on Tuesday, a prosecutor’s lawyer, Khaddokkoun, said that the terms of the settlement should be completed within 30 days.
This step comes to stability amid escalating calls from legislators in the state and federal legislators to ban Paraquat, and since increasing numbers of Parkinson’s patients blame the company for not warning them of risks. Several scientific studies have linked Parkinson to exposure to Partawat, and it is a common user in agriculture, although Syntenta has said that the weight of scientific evidence shows that pesticide does not cause disease.
The agreement will not solve all the cases raised in the United States against Singetta, but it can be solved most of them.
As of mid -April, there were more than 5,800 active lawsuits known in what is known as the MDL litigant (MDL) supervised by a federal court in Illinois. There were more than 450 other cases submitted in California, and many cases scattered in state courts all over the country.
Baghdadi said that notice of the agreement applies to people whose lawsuits are part of MDL, and can also provide settlements for prosecutors on issues outside the MDL as well.
The company said: “SYNGENTA has settled some claims in the multi -federal federal litigation (MDL) and the California Court in the United States related to Brakawat.” SYNGENTA believes that there is no advantage of demands, but the litigation can be pure and costly. Entering the agreement does not in any way mean that Paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease or that Syntenta has made any mistake. We stand alongside the integrity of the pillars.
Despite decades of investigation and more than 1,200 epidemic and laboratory studies for Brakawat, no scientist or doctor has concluded in a peer scientific analysis that Barack is causing Parkinson’s disease. “
Singetta’s voltage to settle the litigation before any high -level experiments came after the owner of Monsanto, Bayer, shook a similar suit that it claims to cause it to Roundup Weedkiller Cancer. After the company lost the first round experience, the price of its share decreased, and Bayer spent years and billions of dollars in the fighting to end the continuous litigation.
Paraquat prosecutors’ lawyers have expressed in MDL cases his frustration with this situation, saying that they had not been included in the settlement discussions, and have not been given details about the settlement.
They are afraid that their issues have been delayed or negatively affected by the settlement that benefit some of the plaintiffs, but they may actually not provide value to the majority of them.
“These prosecutors die every day,” said Majid Nachhawati, the lawyer who is outside MDL, to the judge in a hearing in the California Court on Tuesday on this matter. He said that the settlement news was a “shock” because it was not informed of the settlement negotiations by the lawyer of the other prosecutors, as it should have been.
Paraquat has become one of the most chemicals for weeds in the world. In the United States, the chemical is used in orchards, wheat fields and pastures where livestock, cotton fields and other places are used.
The interior documents revealed by The Guardian and New LEDE that the company was familiar with several years ago with scientific evidence that Paraquat could affect the brain in ways to cause Parkinson’s, and that it has secretly sought to influence scientific research to face damage evidence.
This story is published with New LadyThe Press Project for the Environmental Work Group