Bayer reaches $10.5 billion settlement in Roundup cancer lawsuits

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BREAKING: Bayer will pay more than $10B to resolve thousands of lawsuits regarding claims that its Roundup herbicide causes cancer, the company announces.

lawsuit in 2018 by a school groundskeeper

who claimed its weedkiller had caused his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Since then, thousands of U.S. lawsuits have been filed against the company. Bayer CEO Werner Baumann called the decision to settle the lawsuits was the right one in order to end a long period of uncertainty. “The decision to resolve the Roundup litigation enables us to focus fully on the critical supply of healthcare and food,” Baumann said in statement. “It will also return the conversation about the safety and utility of glyphosate-based herbicides to the scientific and regulatory arena and to the full body of science.”This is a developing story, please check back for updates.

 

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Why is this still being sold?

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What ? No more aspirin?! 🤧😷👍🤟

All built into the cost of the product. Thanks product misusers, we are all paying you when we buy roundup.

Our statement Even Bayer’s billions can’t magically make glyphosate’s link to cancer disappear. Bayer only settled after 3 verdicts from jurors who, unlike the EPA, wisely put more trust in independent research than in Bayer’s confidential reviews of its own product

When will they stop selling it?

isn't this product still on the market?

NBC29 That’s all?

That's a good move. Now you must fight against Monsanto and its evil products.

And all prices for all their products will go up

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