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A Nicaraguan court ordered Shell Chemical, Dole Food, and Standard Fruit companies to pay a group of women US$82.9 million in fines in a lawsuit brought by campesinas made chronically sick by the use of the pesticide Nemagon on banana plantations in the 1970s.
Use of the chemical was banned in the US in 1967 after it was determined that it caused blindness, sterility, cancer, birth defects, and other diseases, but export of the product was not banned, and it was shipped to Central America where it was used until at least 1980 (see NotiCen, 1998-05-28).
The court decision follows a judgment for US$489 million handed down on Dec. 11, 2001, against Shell, Dole, and Dow Agro Sciences (Del Monte), which the offending companies have refused to pay.
Managua Civil Court Justice Vida Benavente's ruling would mean about US$1 million would go to each of 81 plaintiffs. During the trial, the plaintiffs testified to their ailments, an unequivocal litany of horrors, and entered...
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