Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller atomizers are displayed for sale at a garden shop near Brussels, Belgium November 27, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File PhotoAttorneys for Bayer AG and consumers suing the company over allegations its Roundup weedkiller caused cancer told a judgelast week they are continuing to resolve thousands more cases, improving prospects for its $11 billion deal to end the litigation. The parties have binding deals to resolve about 45,000 of the 125,000 filed and unfiled claims, according to attorneys involved. Bayer has said Roundup is safe and important to farmers who use the herbicide in combination with the company's genetically modified seeds. In 2015, the World Health Organization's cancer research arm determined the herbicide to be a "probable carcinogen."

Source: Irish Independent September 30, 2020 06:56 UTC