California Personal Injury Lawyers Blog
Never Sprayed Roundup, But Diagnosed With Cancer? How Washing a Spouse’s Work Clothes May Have Exposed You
You never touched a sprayer. You never worked the fields, mowed the greens, or mixed weed killer. So when a doctor told you that you have non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a lawsuit was probably the last thing on your mind. After all, the Roundup cases you’ve heard about involve people who used the product for years — not their families.
But there’s a part of this story that rarely makes the headlines. For decades, spouses and family members were exposed to glyphosate at home, often without ever realizing it. If you washed a loved one’s work clothes, shook the dust off their boots, or breathed in the residue clinging to their uniforms, you may have had far more contact with this chemical than you ever knew.