Irrespective of the comparison, the three media-effective processes (Dewayne Johnson, Edwin Hardeman, Alva and Alberta Pilliod – all of whom developed cancer after years of using glyphosate), which Bayer paid in the first instance compensation payments in the hundreds of millions, continue to run regardless of the comparison. In the proceedings, the jury had confirmed that Monsanto / Bayer had deliberately kept silent about the risk of cancer and had not given sufficient warning about the risks.
In the course of the glyphosate affair, Bayer plans to get rid of other contaminated sites – the weed killer Dicamba and the chemical PCB, which has been banned in the United States since 1979 and which Leverkusen acquired with the Monsanto takeover – and to settle legal proceedings. Extra cost: around $ 1.2 billion.
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