Monsanto, the maker of Roundup will challenge a jury’s Roundup verdict in favor of a California cancer victim after the company was found liable and ordered to pay $ 289 million in damages. Also, the Environmental Working Group has commissioned independent laboratory tests that showed breakfast cereals have been found to have glyphosate the active ingredient in Roundup in all but 2 of 45 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats. EWG Toxicologist Dr. Alexis Temkin says the government must take steps to protect consumers.

Temkin says her group wants companies to eliminate any possible sources of glyphosate that could show up in their foods.

Temkin says EWG agrees with the jury’s decision and says science has shown glyphosate to be linked with cancer.
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EWG President Ken Cook says his group will petition the EPA to end uses of glyphosate that resulted in this recent contamination. The EPA has denied that glyphosate may increase the risk of cancer.