Confidential - William Reeves 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 4 5 IN RE: ROUNDUP PRODUCTS MDL NO. 02741 LIABILITY LITIGATION 6 THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO: Hon. Vince Chhabria 7 ALL ACTIONS 8 9 10 11 *CONFIDENTIAL* 12 13 (3 0(b) (6) CAPACITY FOR MONSANTO COMPANY ) 14 VOLUME II 15 VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF WILLIAM REEVES 16 TAKEN ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFFS 17 JANUARY 24, 2019 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 392 Confidential - William Reeves 1 VOLUME 2, VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF 2 WILLIAM REEVES, produced, sworn and examined on the 3 January 24th, 2019, at of Husch Blackwell, 190 4 Carondelet Plaza, Suite 600, St. Louis, Missouri, 5 before Tara Schwake, a Registered Professional 6 Reporter, Certified Realtime Reporter, Certified 7 Shorthand Reporter (IL), Certified Court Reporter 8 (MO), and Notary Public within and for the State of 9 Missouri. 10 11 APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL 12 13 FOR THE PLAINTIFFS: 14 15 BAUM HEDLUND ARISTEI & GOLDMAN, P.C. 16 12100 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 950 17 Los Angeles, California 90025 18 (310) 207-3233 19 by: R. Brent Wisner, Esq. 20 Michael L. Baum, Esq. 21 [email protected] 22 [email protected] 23 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 393 Confidential - William Reeves 1 FOR THE PLAINTIFFS: 2 HOLLAND LAW FIRM 3 300 North Tucker Boulevard, Suite 801 4 St. Louis, Missouri 63101 5 (314) 241-8111 6 by: Eric D. Holland, Esq. 7 [email protected] 8 9 FOR THE DEFENDANTS : 10 BARTLIT BECK HERMAN PALENCHAR & SCOTT, LLP 11 1801 Wewatta Street, Suite 1200 12 Denver, Colorado 80202 13 (303) 592-3100 14 by: Lindley J. Brenza, Esq. 15 [email protected] 16 17 HOLLINGSWORTH, LLP 18 1350 I Street NW 19 Washington, DC 20005 20 (202) 898-5800 21 by: Joseph F. Altieri, Esq. 22 j [email protected] 23 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 394 Confidential - William Reeves 1 FOR THE DEFENDANTS : 2 ARNOLD & PORTER 3 777 South Figueroa Street 4 Los Angeles, California 90017 5 (213) 243-4000 6 by: E. Alex Beroukhim, Esq. 7 [email protected] 8 9 COURT REPORTER: 10 TARA SCHWAKE, CRR, RPR, CCR, CSR 11 12 13 VIDEOGRAPHER: 14 Mr. Luke Arndt 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 395 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF INTERROGATION 2 ALL WITNESSES PAGE 3 For Plaintiffs 4 WILLIAM REEVES 5 Examination by Mr. Wisner 408 Examination by Mr. Brenza 738 6 Examination by Mr. Baum 854 Re-Examination by Mr. Brenza 890 7 8 9 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 10 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 11 Exhibit 48 Document reflecting Food and Chemical Toxicology 12 Editorial Board from Wayback Machine dated 13 October 8th, 2012 409 14 Exhibit 49 Document reflecting Food and Chemical Toxicology 15 Editorial Board from Wayback Machine dated 16 July 19, 2013 410 17 Exhibit 50 Food and Chemical Toxicology Retraction 18 notice to "Long term toxicity of a Roundup 19 herbicide and a Roundup- tolerant genetically 20 modified maize" article 413 21 Exhibit 51 Series of email exchanges within Monsanto, 22 MONGLY 06777917 - MONGLY 06777927 428 23 Exhibit 54 Series of email exchanges 24 within Monsanto in September 2013, 25 MONGLY 02546318 437 Golkow Litigation Services Page 396 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 55 Republished Seralini article 446 4 Exhibit 56 Retraction by corruption: 5 the 2012 Seralini paper, by Eva Novotny 449 6 Exhibit 57 Invoices paid to people 7 who testified at the SAP on Monsanto's behalf 451 8 Exhibit 58 November 2014 email 9 chain, Re: Poster Abstract, MONGLY00978170 459 10 Exhibit 59 8/19/08 email exchanges 11 within Monsanto, MONGLY 02286841 - 12 MONGLY 02286843 469 13 Exhibit 60 September 2008 series of email exchanges within 14 Monsanto, Re: Manuscript CBT0548 for review, 15 MONGLY 01238649 - MONGLY 01238676 471 16 Exhibit 61 9/9/08 email exchange, 17 Subject: CBT0548, MONGLY 01189468 474 18 Exhibit 62 9/12/08 email from David 19 Saltmiras, Subject: Peer Review of Glyphosate 20 Cytotoxicity submission to Cell Biology & 21 Toxicology, with attachment, MONGLY 01238767 - 22 MONGLY 01238772 477 23 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 397 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 63 Bayer AG - Investor Relations, transcript 4 from Conference Call: Discussion on Glyphosate 5 Litigation, 23 August, 2018 487 6 Exhibit 64 2/24/14 email exchanges 7 within Monsanto, Subject: Minute L&G Outreach 8 workshop, with attached L&G Reputation Management 9 Session Summary, MONGLY 07692015 - 10 MONGLY 07692016 496 11 Exhibit 65 November 2015 email exchanges, Subject: 12 Sustainalytics, with attachments, MONGLY03102142 13 - MONGLY03102143 506 14 Exhibit 66 Drawing, Is Roundup/ glyphosate a cancer 15 causer? 516 16 Exhibit 67 11/7/02 email from Chantal Van Bellinghen, 17 Subject: Operator exposure for MON 2139; UK 18 case, with attachments, MONGLY 06509235 523 19 Exhibit 68 6/19/03 email from 20 Richard Garnett, Subject: Opex MON 78273, with 21 attachment, MONGLY06403282 - MONGLY06403322 535 22 Exhibit 69 Product label for Roundup 23 Pro Concentrate 538 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 398 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 70 November 2008 email chain, Re: Pk recovery 4 Wester, et al, with attachment, MONGLY02155826 5 - MONGLY02155832 544 6 Exhibit 71 February 2003 email exchanges within 7 Monsanto, Re: Dermal absorption, MONGLY06398326 8 - MONGLYO6398327 544 9 Exhibit 72 Contains Trade Secret or Otherwise Confidential 10 Information of Monsanto Company, MONGLYO2142251 11 - MONGLY02142265 548 12 Exhibit 73 List of US Regulators, EPA, ATSDR, OSHA, and 13 OEHHA 565 14 Exhibit 74 Summary of ORD comments on OPP's glyphosate cancer 15 assessment, December 14, 2015 569 16 Exhibit 75 Proposition 65, Notice of 17 Intent to List: Tetrachlorvinphos, 18 Parathion, Malathion, Glyphosate 588 19 Exhibit 76 September 2015 email 20 exchange, Re: California EPA Moves to Label 21 Monsanto's Roundup 1 Carcinogenic 1/East Bay 22 Express, MONGLY07120036 - MONGLY07120038 590 23 Exhibit 77 Prop 75 cost on CA 24 Municipalities Markets, by Steve Gould, 25 MONGLY 07099001 598 Golkow Litigation Services Page 399 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 78 October 2015 email exchange, Re: Glyphosate 4 and Prop 65 - Sam Cohen, with attachments, 5 MONGLY 03056791 - MONGLY 03056799 606 6 Exhibit 79 10/9/15 letter from 7 Dr. Samuel Cohen, faxed to Ms. Esther Barajas-Ochoa, 8 Re: NOIL Glyphosate, 609 9 Exhibit 80 11/23/15 email from Donna Farmer to David Saltmiras, 10 with attached Monsanto Glyphosate Review 11 Presentation, OEHHA Meeting, October 7 616 12 Exhibit 81 California EPA Office of 13 Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Safe 14 Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 15 (Proposition 65), Notice to Interested Parties 16 July 7, 2017 617 17 Exhibit 82 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Amendment to 18 Section 25705, Specific Regulatory Levels Posing 19 No Significant Risk: Glyphosate, March 28, 2017 619 20 21 22 23 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 400 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 83 Initial Statement of Reasons, Title 27, 4 California Code of Regulations, Proposed 5 Amendment to Section 25705(b) Specific 6 Regulatory Levels Posing No Significant Risk, 7 Glyphosate, Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement 8 Act of 1986, Proposition 65 620 9 Exhibit 84 March 2016 email exchange, Re: One pager on Social 10 media, with attachments, MONGLY 03286032 - 11 MONGLY 03286033 627 12 Exhibit 85 Monsanto Prop 65, Proposal, 29 September 2017, 13 MONGLY 07587243 - MONGLY 07587248 638 14 Exhibit 86 7/5/18 email from Nick 15 Banner to Todd Rands, Subject: Notes, with 16 attachments, MONGLY04441101 - MONGLY14441108 642 17 Exhibit 87 March 16, 2017, US EPA 18 Scientific Advisory Panel Meeting Minutes and Final 19 Report 664 20 Exhibit 88 Series of text messages, MONGLY 03293245 - 21 MONGLY 03293254 690 22 Exhibit 89 June 2015 email exchanges, Re: GA Update on US 23 Government Outreach - WHO IARC Clarification on 24 Glyphosate, MONGLY03064695 - MONGLY03064702 702 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 401 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 90 April 2015 email exchanges, Re: Glyphosate IARC 4 Question, MONGLY00987755 - MONGLY 00987758 715 Exhibit 91 September 2015 email 6 exchanges, Re: High Level Summary of 2 recent 7 Mesnage studies (also low dose response as FYI), 8 MONGLY 03351980 - MONGLY 03351982 722 Q Exhibit 92 6/24/15 email exchanges, 10 Subject: ATSDR, MONGLY 02060345 - 11 MONGLY 02060344 725 12 Exhibit 93 Benefits and Safety of Glyphosate business 13 record Published July 2016, Monsanto 762 14 Exhibit 94 Plaintiffs' Amended 15 Notice to Take the Videotaped Oral Deposition 16 of Monsanto Company on January 23, 2019 784 17 Exhibit 95 US EPA 10/30/91 Memorandum, 18 Subject: Second Peer Review of Glyphosate, MONGLY00232477 19 - MONGLY00232495 787 20 Exhibit 96 Article: Cancer Incidence among Glyphosate-Exposed 21 Pesticide Applicators in the Agricultural Health 22 Study, by De Roos, Environmental Health 23 Perspectives, January 2005 804 24 25 Golkow Litigation Services Page 402 Confidential - William Reeves 1 INDEX OF EXHIBITS 2 NO. DESCRIPTION PAGE 3 Exhibit 97 Article: Glyphosate Use and Cancer Incidence in 4 the Agricultural Health Study, Oxford University 5 Press 2017 804 6 Exhibit 98 Article: Glyphosate Biomonitoring for Farmers 7 and Their Families: