Bayer to Pay $10 Billion to Settle Roundup Lawsuits

June 25, 2020 By Esme Johnson

Bayer will pay more than $10 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits regarding claims that its herbicide Roundup causes cancer, the company announced Wednesday. Monsanto, which Bayer bought in 2018, lost a lawsuit that same year brought by a school groundskeeper who claimed its weedkiller had caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Since then, thousands of U.S. lawsuits have been…

Tests show that Roundup is genotoxic

January 27, 2020 By Esme Johnson

Tests by a US government agency on common weedkilling products such as Roundup, made with the chemical glyphosate, have found some formulations sold to the public to be genotoxic, meaning they are damaging to human DNA. Monsanto’s German owner Bayer AG is currently mired in litigation brought by tens of thousands of cancer patients who claim exposure to Monsanto’s…