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Bayer facing possible growing legal costs, consumer backlash after Roundup jury award
Bayer facing possible growing legal costs, consumer backlash after Roundup jury award
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It’s been a rough day for Monsanto, the maker of the weedkiller Roundup. On Friday a jury awarded a California groundskeeper $289.2 million, concluding that exposure to Roundup caused his cancer. On Monday stock in Bayer, the company that acquired Monsanto earlier this year, tumbled 10 percent.
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