Jury finds Bayer ’s Roundup as factor in cancer case

A federal jury in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that the weedkiller Roundup, a product developed by Monsanto that was acquired by Bayer, played a significant role in a man ’s cancer.  Edwin Hardeman, a California resident, used the weedkiller in his yard, and the jury found that the exposure to Roundup caused him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the Wall Street Journal. Now the case moves into the next phase for jurors to decide whether the Monsanto unit of Bayer is liable, which could…
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