St. Louis jury hands Bayer seventh straight win in defense of Roundup, concluding weedkiller not responsible for gardener’s lymphoma

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A spokesperson for Bayer said that a St. Louis County jury’s ruling on [May 23] in its favor was consistent with science.

“The jury’s verdict in favor of the company brings this trial to a successful conclusion and is consistent with the evidence in this case that Roundup is not responsible for the plaintiff’s illness,” a Bayer spokesperson said.

Plaintiff Sharlean Gordon of Illinois claimed the herbicide caused her to develop blood cancer.

After spraying the Roundup from 1992 to 2017 while gardening, Gordon told the court she developed a subtype of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma called DLBCL in 2006.

But as previously reported in the St. Louis Record, defense attorneys argued that’ Gordon’s illness was a matter of bad luck and she had contracted large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) as a result of naturally occurring cell mutations.

The jury verdict is the seventh Roundup victory for the defendant in Missouri’s 21st Judicial Circuit, including the Clark, Stephens, Shelton, Johnson, Alesi, and Ferro cases.

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“While we have great sympathy for the plaintiff in this case, the jury has weighed the evidence from both sides in this case and concluded that Roundup is not responsible for her injuries,” the spokesperson added

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