German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer has agreed to pay more than US$10bn to end tens of thousands of current and potential lawsuits filed over its Roundup weedkiller, the company announced Wednesday.
When Bayer acquired American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto in 2018, the world’s best-known weedkiller, Roundup, was included in the deal. At the time, Bayer knew it was inheriting a public relations and litigation crisis, but always maintained that Roundup’s active weed-killing ingredient, glyphosate, was safe. Fast forward to today and Bayer still adopts…
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