Glyphosate: a family compensated after exposure to weedkiller

Theo Grataloup and his mother are relieved. For the first time, a family is compensated for being exposed to glyphosate. Sabine Grataloup was poisoned when she was pregnant. Her son was born with serious malformations. “We were heard. It’s relief, appeasement“, she says. His son, for his part, believes that “it’s a big victory“. Theo’s metallic voice comes from his esophagus. He has no vocal cords because he had a tracheotomy.

A “possible” causal link

These are years of hospitals and painful battles for this family. At birth, Théo’s respiratory and digestive system communicated. “He had 54 operations”indicates the mother. It was on a horse riding field that Sabine Grataloupjust pregnant, had sprayed a weedkiller based on glyphosate. It was presented by Monsanto as harmless. In its opinion, the compensation fund reserved for professionals retains “there possibility of a causal link between the child’s pathology and exposure to pesticides during the prenatal period“.

In four days, the European Union must decide whether or not to extend the use of glyphosate for another ten years.