Bayer to pay $2 billion after losing suit that claims weedkiller Roundup causes cancer

Bayer AG on Monday was ordered by a Northern California jury to pay more than $2 billion to a couple who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using the company's glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup.The jury said the company's product did not properly warn of its cancer risk.

Bottles of Roundup weed killer move along the production line at the herbicide manufacturing facility operated by Monsanto.on Monday was ordered by a Northern California jury to pay more than $2 billion to a couple who say they were diagnosed with cancer after using the company's glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup.

The San Francisco Superior Court in Oakland said the company had to pay the plaintiffs, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, the damages after they contracted non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Alva Pilliod was awarded a total of $1.37 billion, while his wife Alberta was granted $1.18 billion.This is the third lawsuit the company has lost related to claims that Roundup causes cancer. Bayer paid $159 million in damages in the first two cases. The company said it would appeal both verdicts.

Roundup is a herbicide produced by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired last year for $63 billion. The company has that its product causes cancer, saying that decades of studies and regulatory evaluations have shown the weedkiller to be safe for use.--Reuters contributed to this report.

14,000 more plaintiffs on the horizon. Shame on the politicians that allowed this garbage in our food and vaccines when they knew it was poison!!!

Should go under... They have hurt, and killed many Americans. They KNEW about it

Why are you people always faster then us stop making me jealous!!!

Verdict does not mean pay. It does not even mean judgment This verdict will be appealed.

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