Bayer To Pay More Than $10 Billion To Resolve Cancer Lawsuits Over Weedkiller Roundup

June 24, 2020btollesonRSS Sample

Bayer says a settlement worth more than $10 billion will resolve most of the roughly 125,000 claims the company currently faces over its Roundup product. Here, a farmer sprays the glyphosate herbicide in northwestern France in September.

Roundup’s active ingredient is glyphosate, which thousands of plaintiffs blame for causing them to develop cancer.

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