Monsanto lost again on Roundup. What's next for glyphosate?

摘要

A California jury awarded more than $2 billion yesterday to a couple who blamed their cancer diagnoses on achemical found in Monsanto's popular herbicide Roundup — the latest in a string of legal defeats for the BayerAG subsidiary.The verdict from the Alameda County Superior Court comes just months after two other juries awarded millionsof dollars to plaintiffs in similar lawsuits that claimed Monsanto knew Roundup's active chemical glyphosate wasdangerous but failed to warn customers.Bayer denies glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma or any other cancer and is appealing all three verdicts.But legal experts note that pressure is increasing for the company to settle the more than 13,000 additionalcases awaiting trial.