The German Bayer group has been ordered in the US to pay NOK 23 billion in damages to a man who says he got cancer after using the herbicide Roundup.
Bayer must pay 2.25 billion dollars, an amount that amounts to NOK 23.46 billion at today’s exchange rate, to a man from the state of Pennsylvania. A court in Philadelphia rules that.
The jury determined that the man’s lymphoma was a result of him using the weed killer Roundup for gardening outside his house for a period of several years.
Bayer, which owns Monsanto, the company behind Roundup, disagrees with the ruling and believes there are strong grounds for appealing the verdict.
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The case is currently the latest in a series of lawsuits against Bayer and Monsanto’s herbicide. Bayer has been successful in ten of the last 16 Roundup lawsuits, according to an overview from the Reuters news agency. More Roundup trials are expected to take place later this year.
Roundup is a herbicide that contains the substance glyphosate. The World Health Organization (WHO) concluded in 2015 that glyphosate can be carcinogenic, but this is disputed by, among others, the US environmental agency EPA and the EU’s chemical agency. Bayer claims that decades of studies have shown that glyphosate is not harmful to humans.
(©NTB)
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2024-01-27 00:01:17
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