Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company is headquartered in Leverkusen. Its areas of business include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds, and biotechnology products.
Bayer is one of the post-WWII spin-offs of Nazi collaborator IG Farben.
In August 2018, two months after Bayer acquired Monsanto, a U.S. jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million to a school groundskeeper who claimed his Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was caused by regularly using Roundup, a glyphosate-based herbicide produced by Monsanto... Pending appeal, the award was later reduced to $78.5 million.
In November 2018, Monsanto appealed the judgement, asking an appellate court to consider a motion for a new trial. A verdict on the appeal was delivered in June 2020 upholding the verdict but further reducing the award to $21.5 million.
On 13 May 2019, a United States Superior Court Judge ordered Bayer to pay more than $ 2.5 billion in damages to a couple in California, both of whom contracted non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, later cut to $87 million on appeal.
In June 2020, the company agreed to pay $9.6 billion to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits claiming harm from Roundup, saying this action will result in the resolution of 75% of those claims. Bayer will also assign $1.25 billion for future claims, an action that needs approval from the US District Court, Northern District of California. The settlement, according to the company, does not admit either liability or wrongdoing, but brings an end to irresolution in the case.
The general consensus among national regulatory agencies, and the European Commission is that labeled usage of the herbicide poses no carcinogenic or genotoxic risk to humans.
In January 2020, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its interim registration review for Roundup, stating that it "...did not identify any risks of concern" for cancer and other risks to humans from glyphosate exposure."
Thanks. That's a bill of nearly 12 billion to get glyphosate back into our foods. Russia and China meanwhile are working on glyphosate-free agriculture.
Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The company is headquartered in Leverkusen. Its areas of business include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds, and biotechnology products.
Bayer is one of the post-WWII spin-offs of Nazi collaborator IG Farben.
List of Chempark companies - https://www.chempark.com/en/chempark-leverkusen.html
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1419939536075886592
There's some chatter that this may not be Bayer at all, but the adjacent Currenta waste management.
Bayer and chemicals firm Lanxess LXSG.DE in 2019 sold Chempark operator Currenta to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets MQG.AX for 3.5 billion euros ($4.12 billion).
https://www.wivb.com/news/world/explosion-at-chemical-complex-in-german-city-of-leverkusen/ Bayer's "Chempark" site is in the western German city of Leverkusen, about 13 miles north of Cologne. The explosion was apparently at a garbage incineration plant.
https://www.thewashingtontime.com/leverkusen-explosion-fears-dangerous-substances-have-leaked-out-as-waste-plant-burning/
Didn't Bayer purchase Monsanto and the company is now liable for work-related damages?
According to Wikipedia —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer
Thanks. That's a bill of nearly 12 billion to get glyphosate back into our foods. Russia and China meanwhile are working on glyphosate-free agriculture.