A key witness for the plaintiff in the California court case that resulted in a $289 million judgment against Monsanto related to Roundup and similar products probably won’t change all that much in the farm world, Successful Farming reported. 

The California case involved a school groundskeeper exposed to Monsanto’s herbicides. Charles Benbrook, visiting scholar at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and a key witness in the case for the plaintiff, said the verdict is unlikely to lead to suits against other herbicide manufacturers. He expects the focus to be on Roundup, the subject of a recent Environmental Working Group study that found trace amounts in cereal and other products. 

On Aug. 10, San Francisco Superior Court jurors ruled in favor of Dewayne Johnson, a 42-year-old school groundskeeper suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, who received $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages.

In 2015, the World Health Organization’s International Agency on Cancer warned that the main ingredient in Roundup appeared to be a probable carcinogen, leading to thousands of lawsuits against Monsanto.