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Sweetener warning stirs debate
Reuters, Published on 30/06/2023
» LONDON: Consumers, food companies, retailers and restaurants need to decide whether to fight back or find alternatives to one of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners, as a leading global health body prepares to declare it a possible carcinogen.
J&J to end all sales of talc-based baby powder
Published on 12/08/2022
» Johnson & Johnson says it will stop selling talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, more than two years after it ended US sales of a product that has drawn thousands of consumer safety lawsuits.
Researchers find biological links between red meat and colorectal cancer
AFP, Published on 19/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - Eating less red meat is standard medical advice for preventing colorectal cancer, but the way it causes cells to mutate has remained unclear, and not all experts were convinced there was a strong link.
Monsanto appeals damning Roundup cancer verdict
AFP, Published on 21/11/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO - Monsanto on Tuesday said it is asking an appeals court to toss out a damning verdict in a landmark Roundup weed-killer cancer trial and grant it another try.
Bayer starts Monsanto integration as stock suffers
AFP, Published on 16/08/2018
» FRANKFURT AM MAIN - German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said Thursday that it would begin integrating seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto after a mega-merger, but its stock price was battered by the US firm's legal woes.
US giant Monsanto known for controversial chemicals
AFP, Published on 11/08/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO - From "Agent Orange" and DDT to genetically modified crops, Monsanto has long been associated with controversial chemicals, but a US court order for it to pay damages because one of its herbicides may cause cancer could open the door to thousands more claims against the company.
US jury finds Monsanto guilty in Roundup trial
AFP, Published on 11/08/2018
» SAN FRANCISCO - A California jury on Friday ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay nearly $290 million for failing to warn a dying groundskeeper that its weed killer Roundup might cause cancer.