Via America’s Lawyer: Monsanto’s Roundup is far from the most dangerous weedkiller on the market, yet federal regulators continue to drop the ball when it comes to protecting consumers from hazardous chemicals. At the Mass Torts Made Perfect conference in Las Vegas, guest host Brent Jabbour discusses with Mike Papantonio how Paraquat was just re-approved for commercial use by the Biden administration, despite the deadly herbicide’s links to Parkinson’s disease. Plus, manufacturers of Valsartan have kept quiet about a certain ingredient that’s primarily used for rocket fuel and inducing cancer in lab rats. RT’s Brent Jabbour sat down with attorney Sara Papantonio to discuss ongoing litigation against the company.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
A popular weed killer known as Paraquat is causing severe medical issues. The worst of which is Parkinson's disease. Litigation is just getting started in the matter. And joining me now to discuss Paraquat is legendary trial attorney, America's Lawyer himself, Mike Papantonio. Tell us about this situation.
Well, it's a simple science test. Here it is. In about the 1940s and 50s, the chemical industry went crazy. They were making chemicals that were going to make our life better. So they come up with this molecule. It's the Paraquat, let's call it the Paraquat molecule. At the time they have no idea what they're going to do with it. You know, we're going to use it for A, we're going to use it for B or C. What are we going to do with it? So they said, well, okay, about 1960, they said, let's use it as an herbicide. The only problem with that is that the herbicide, three drops of it, would kill you. And they knew that when they put it on the market and they fully understood that people were going to be handling it, they're going to be inhaling. It was going to get it in their eyes. They were going to, every, every possible way this chemical could affect them was going to be played out. So they hid that. They didn't tell anybody, oh, by the way, this stuff will kill you. They sold it all over the world. It got to the point to where every country in the, on the globe said, no, you can't sell this in our country except the United States. So that's where we are right now.
Well, and it's very interesting because when you look at that, you see the country that designed it. They've, they've banned it. And the EU as a whole, it's banned. In the United States, you actually need a full license from the EPA to actually be able to handle this.
Yeah.
So what are the negative effects to people who are around it beyond just the death of those three drops?
Okay. Here's what happens. Once you have the, once you have contact with the chemical, it's not over, it's a progressive latent process. It causes damage to the synapse of the neurological system. The, you inhale, you inhale the chemical. It builds up in your system. It starts killing the synapses in your brain that are giving you impulses to movement, to thought, and they knew that as early as the 1980s, but they kept it a secret. They, they, they kept it a secret from the FDA. And of course our dysfunctional FDA that they, I don't even know why we have an FDA in the United States, took no action. Now here's what's important. They took no action after 32 countries across the globe said, you may not sell this poison in our country. As a matter of fact, the very countries that produce it, the UK, China, Switzerland, you can't even sell it in those countries because those countries know how dangerous this product is. But our FDA said, yeah, we're going to, we're going to go along with it. It gets worse than that for the United States.
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