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While the European Commission has just decided to renew the use of glyphosate for another ten years, the sentences that indirectly confirm the dangers of this herbicide are multiplying.Last Friday the synthetic chemical giant Bayer - which acquired the multinational Monsanto - was hit by an important ruling in which three of the thousands of farmers who brought legal action in this sense were in favour.The sentence imposed on the German multinational is exemplary, as it will have to pay compensation for over 1.5 billion dollars growers, who claim to have gotten cancer due to the use of Roundup, a product based on glyphosate.In the United States, the courts are increasingly ordering Bayer to compensate those who have become ill due to exposure to the controversial substance. The farmers who sued the multinational are called James Draeger, Valorie Gunther and Dan Anderson, who were awarded $61.1 million in actual damage and well 500 million dollars each in punitive damages.Specifically,...

Chemical giant Bayer has been ordered to pay $78 million to a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer due to prolonged use of Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide made by the company.The sentence was handed down yesterday by a Philadelphia jury.This is only the latest verdict resulting from a long series of lawsuits against the German multinational, which in 2018 acquired Monsanto, the company that originally put the herbicide on the market.The World Health Organization classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic" in 2015, but despite this, at the end of 2023 the European Union the authorization for the use of the substance was renewed, albeit with new restrictions. The 51-year-old who won the lawsuit against Bayer, William Melissen, used Roundup consistently from 1992 until 2020, when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.The man then took Bayer to court in 2021, claiming cancer the consequence of his exposure to the chemicals present in the herbicide.Tom K...