Opening statements in the first trial over whether Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused a user to get cancer are set to begin on Monday in San Francisco.

Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, a former groundskeeper diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma four years ago, claimed in a lawsuit that his exposure to glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicides, caused his terminal illness.

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