EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study

Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by Natsu on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @08:19PM (#14659762)

Does anyone have a link to the actual court filing so we can see the document they reference? Is this an email found during discovery or something else?

> “If I can kill this I should get a medal,” Rowland told a Monsanto regulatory affairs manager who recounted the conversation in an email to his colleagues, according to a court filing made public Tuesday

> The case is In re: Roundup Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2741, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

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Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by Natsu on Thursday June 29, 2017 @03:05AM (#14661352)

Update -

mikeyouse found the email here: http://i.imgur.com/iSjBfztr.jpg

His comment saying that got autokilled for duplicating his other comment linking to it.

Here's a quick transcription I made of the email:

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Hey- cc'ing Jen

So...Jess called me out of the blue this morning:

"We have enough to sustain our conclusions. Don't need gene tox or epi. The only thing is the cheminova study with the sarcoma in mice- we have that study now and its conclusions are irrelevant (bc at limit dose...?) I am the chair of the CARC and my folks are running this process for glyphosate in reg review. I have called a CARC meeting in June..."

Also, Jess called to ask for a contact name at ATSDR. I passed on Jesslyn's email. He told me no coordination is going on and he wanted to establish some saying "If I can kill this I should get a medal". However, don't get your hopes up, I doubt EPA and Jess can kill this; but it's good to know they are going to actually make the effort now to coordinate due to our pressing and their shared concern that ATSDR is consistent in its conclusions w EPA.

  Dan Jenkins
  U.S. Agency Lead

  Regulatory Affairs
  Monsasnto Company
  1300 I St., NW
  Suite 450 East
  Washington, DC 20005

  Office: 202-383-2851
  Cell: 571-732-6575

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Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by mikeyouse on Thursday June 29, 2017 @03:22PM (#14666128)

Thanks for the assist -- Didn't realize dupes would be deleted if they were in different comment trees.

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Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by Natsu on Thursday June 29, 2017 @04:19PM (#14666550)

No problem, thank you for digging up the info. Yes, it will auto-kill identical comments no matter where they are and those with showdead will see [dupe] [dead]

I didn't want your info to get lost because getting the original source is far more interesting to me than a 4th hand account of what happened.

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Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by mikeyouse on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:16PM (#14666922)

I found a better source for the docs, they're in the exhibits portion at the top of this page:

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-...

Makes sense that I couldn't find them on PACER too, turns out that discovery docs aren't posted publicly unless provided by one of the parties (in this case the plaintiffs supplied them).

The email series in question starts at page 99 of this PDF:

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JessRowlandseri...

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Re:EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study by Natsu on Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:36PM (#14667053)

Much appreciated! It's so hard to get direct access to information like this these days.

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