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A jury Wednesday awarded $80.3 million in damages to a California resident the jurors found contracted cancer from exposure to Bayer AG's Roundup weedkillers.
The San Francisco jury's finding that Monsanto Co. -- now owned by German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer -- acted negligently in failing to adequately warn about Roundup's danger is the latest setback in Bayer's efforts to clear its products of allegations that they trigger non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other cancers.
Analysts had widely expected the jury to hold Bayer liable for Edwin Hardeman's cancer in this two-phase federal court trial after the six-person jury in the first phase already reached the conclusion that Roundup was largely to blame for his illness.
While the first phase focused on scientific evidence to determine whether a link exists between Roundup and Mr. Hardeman's non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the jury in the second phase was to determine Monsanto's liability.
"Bayer stands behind these products and will vigorously defend them," the company said after the verdict, adding that it plans to appeal and that Wednesday's verdict has no effect on future trials. Attorneys for the plaintiff said the jury "sent a message to Monsanto that it needs to change the way it does business."
Reuters
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