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BAYER PROTECTION ACT: Iowa Senate passes bill limiting lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers

10 days ago -

That state is Iowa, where state senators just passed Senate File 2412 to protect pesticide companies from lawsuits involving contaminated food that poisons and sickens consumers.

SF 2412 "allows that if a label is approved by the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) and is consistent with the most recent human health assessment under federal law and the EPA's carcinogen classification, companies would be safe from civil liability."

In other words, just like with ...

Bayer must pay nearly $900 million to students who suffered brain damage in latest PCB lawsuit

December 29, 2023 -

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were found to exceed safe levels at the Sky Valley Education Center. Five students and two parents who volunteered there participated in the suit after suffering from health problems linked to these chemicals in the school’s fluorescent light fixtures.

After a two-month trial in the King County Superior Court, the jury reached the verdict, which includes $784 million in punitive damages and $73 million in compensatory damages.

It ...

Bayer AG lost 3 Roundup-related verdicts totaling more than $500M in less than 2 weeks

November 07, 2023 -

Bayer acquired Roundup as part of its $63 billion purchase of agricultural seeds and herbicides from pesticide maker Monsanto Co. in 2018. (Related: Monsanto's poison playbook: How the chemical giant sold the world on a toxic pesticide.)

The first loss for the chemical giant was in St. Louis on Oct. 20, when 12 jurors in the Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court unanimously found Bayer-Monsanto liable for John Durnell's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after ...

Bayer pesticide banned over threat to honeybees

February 22, 2010 - naturalnews.com printable article

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Bayer pesticide banned over threat to honeybees

February 22, 2010 - Bayer pesticide banned over threat to honeybees

Monday, February 22, 2010 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writerTags: pesticides, honeybees, health news

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Bayer strikes $2 billion deal over future Roundup cancer claims

February 17, 2021 -

When Bayer AG acquired the agrochemical company Monsanto in 2018, it also acquired thousands of lawsuits from customers, many of whom alleged that Monsanto's Roundup gave them non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Bayer AG insists that decades of studies show Roundup does not cause cancer. Last January, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) affirmed the company's claim, stating that glyphosate-based products pose no risk to human health if used according to ...

Bayer executive admits mRNA vaccines are “an example of gene therapy”

March 08, 2022 -

Oelrich said that Bayer had been taking the leap to drive innovation in cell and gene therapies, including the mRNA vaccines against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). Two years ago, if the company asked the public whether or not they would be willing to take gene or cell therapies to be injected into their bodies, Oelrich said that there would have been a 95 percent pushback. However, he also observed that the pandemic has opened many people's eyes to innovation.

"Our ...

Bayer won’t ask the Supreme Court to reverse Roundup cancer verdict

March 23, 2021 -

Bayer's decision ends the case that California groundskeeper Dewayne Anthony Lee Johnson filed against the now-defunct agrochemicals company Monsanto, which originally produced Roundup before being purchased three years ago by Bayer. Johnson claimed in a lawsuit that he developed a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after being drenched with Roundup, which contains the herbicide glyphosate.

"I washed up in the sink as best I could and changed ...