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Monsanto and Bayer They face 52,500 lawsuits in the United States for using a herbicide harmful to health.
Bayer has been in litigation for two years, in which thousands of plaintiffs accuse him of the alleged carcinogenic effects of Monsanto’s herbicides, including the Roundup.
In total, these are about 48,600 accusations, the group said.
Bayer lost its first three trials in the United States and was sentenced to very high fines, which were later reduced in a second exam by the judge.
The group tries, with the help of the American lawyer Ken Feinberg, to close the case with an agreement and could agree to pay up to $ 10 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Bayer denies its responsibility and remember that since glyphosate began to be marketed in the 1970s, no regulatory body concluded that it is dangerous to health.
Another dispute that has already been resolved
The German pharmaceutical and agrochemical group was ordered to pay nearly $ 40 million in a previous glyphosate lawsuit.
A group of plaintiffs accused Bayer of hiding glyphosate risks when in 2018 he bought the company Monsanto, his rival, for $ 63 billion, according to a Kansas City court document.
In total the group paid $ 39.6 million (€ 35.9 million).
“The case was resolved to the satisfaction of all parties” and is “subject to the approval of the competent court”, Bayer said in this regard.
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