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General Causation

Whether the substance or product is capable of causing the injury alleged.

A population-level question resolved through epidemiology, toxicology, and mechanistic evidence, and typically litigated once for the whole inventory. A defence win on general causation ends the litigation; a plaintiff win moves the fight to each claimant's individual proof.

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