US jury orders Bayer to pay $2 billion in Roundup cancer case
14 May 2019 |
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Bayer-owned Monsanto has been hit with its third jury verdict in California tying its Roundup weed killer to cancer. Bayer faces more than 13,400 Roundup-related lawsuits in the United States.
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