A jury of the state of Georgia, USA, considered the German company for the herbicide Roundup guilty. For this product accumulates about 60,000 demands in the world.
A jury of the state of Georgia in the United States He ordered the German pharmaceutical multinational last Friday Bayer pay $ 2,100 million to a plaintiff that alleges that A herbicide caused cancer. It is about Roundupwhose main component is glyphosate.
The German company already anticipated that it will appeal the ruling, despite having a history of other legal defeats. For the effects of the Roundup herbicide, The German multinational has had more than 60,000 demands for which it has already paid around US $ 10,000 million.
Roundup is not a product originally from Bayer, but was acquired in 2018 with the purchase of the American agrochemical company Monsantofor the sum of US $ 63,000 million. Given the accumulation of legal actions against him, Bayer already foresaw the creation of a fund for these cases.
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Not only had legal lawsuits in the United States. In different countries they have initiated legal demandsespecially since the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that glyphosate, one of the herbicide elements could be carcinogenic.
In 2023, Bayer had losses 2,941 million euros and reduced his turnover in more than 6 points. Given so many consequences, Bayer reduced the use of herbicide only for domestic issues.
The condemnation of Bayer in Philadelphia last year
One of the background of the Georgia sentence occurred in January 2024. Then they condemned the multinational Bayer To pay U $ 2,250 million dollars To a man who sued the subsidiary Monsanto, the herbicide manufacturer Roundup, for having contracted a cancer which attributes to the use of this agrotoxic. This was determined by a popular jury.
The demand filed this time John McKivison, 49 years old, who appeared to the Courts of Philadelphia to claim that the non -Hodgkin lymphoma that had been diagnosed was a consequence of having used herbicide in his field for two decades, as published by the American newspaper The Washington Post.
“The compensation for punitive damage of the jury sends a clear message that this multinational corporation needs a change from top to bottom,” they saiddescribing the verdict as “a 50 -year condemnation of misconduct by Monsanto.”
Source: Ambito
