U.S. Chamber Says Roundup Cancer Claim Is Federally Preempted By FIFRA

Mealey's (March 21, 2023, 1:34 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce moved in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Monsanto Co. arguing that a cancer victim’s claim that Monsanto failed to warn about the dangers of the herbicide Roundup, which contains the active ingredient glyphosate, fails because a failure-to-warn claim under Georgia common law is expressly preempted by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)....