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A farmer sprays pesticides, which are classification of substances utilized to protect crops (Michael Baniewicz for Investigate Midwest).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seventy-one percent of counties that spray the most glyphosate have late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence rates above the national average, according to a new data analysis from the advocacy group Food and Water Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last month, Investigate Midwest, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center\u2019s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship, published an investigation<\/a> that found 60% of the top 500 counties for pesticide use had overall cancer rates above the national average.<\/p>\n

Food and Water Watch\u2019s data analysis, which also found that most high-pesticide-use counties had cancer rates above the national average, included late-stage diagnosis, the stage of many plaintiffs who have sued large agricultural companies over cancer diagnoses.<\/p>\n

The analysis looked at the top 20% of counties for glyphosate use and found that most were in the upper Midwest. Nearly three out of four of those counties had late-stage cancer rates higher than the national average.<\/p>\n

Nearly 100,000 lawsuits have been settled by pesticide makers, most by Bayer, the maker of Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the strongest cases that are able to make it into litigation are the more aggressive, late-stage (cases),\u201d Amanda Starbuck, a researcher with Food & Water Watch, told Investigate Midwest.<\/p>\n

This article<\/a> first appeared on Investigate Midwest<\/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A farmer sprays pesticides, which are classification of substances utilized to protect crops (Michael Baniewicz for Investigate Midwest). Seventy-one percent of counties that spray the most glyphosate have late-stage non-Hodgkin lymphoma incidence rates above the national average, according to a new data analysis from the advocacy group Food and Water Watch. 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