Recent News

September 28, 2023 – Ready Bayer’s statement on Directed Verdict Motion in McCostlin here.

July 10, 2023 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Carson here.

June 13, 2023 – Read Bayer’s statement on oral arguments in front of the full Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Carson here.

May 23, 2023 – Read Bayer’s statement on the defense verdict in Gordon here.

March 15, 2023 – Read Bayer’s statement on the filing of the company’s en banc brief before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Carson here.

December 19, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Eleventh Circuit order granting the Company’s petition for rehearing en banc in Carson here.

November 9, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the defense verdict in Ferro here.

September 1, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the defense verdict in Alesi here.

July 12, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in Carson here.

June 27, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to deny review of Pilliod here.

June 21, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to deny review of Hardeman here.

June 17, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the full defense verdict issued in Johnson here.

June 9, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the full defense verdict issued in Shelton here.

May 23, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Company’s final brief regarding the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Hardeman here. The full brief can also be read here.

May 10, 2022 – Read Bayer’s statement on the Solicitor General’s brief in the Hardeman appeal here

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This site provides information about litigation against Monsanto involving glyphosate-based products (i.e., various Roundup®-branded products.) Bayer has created this site to provide education and resources related to the litigation to media, stakeholders and others with interests relevant to this litigation.

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Fast Facts on Glyphosate and
Glyphosate-Based Herbicides

  • Long history of safe use: For more than 40 years, farmers – as well as governments, gardeners, and other users – have depended on glyphosate as an efficient and cost-effective tool that can be used safely as directed to control weeds.

  • Conservation benefits: Glyphosate-based herbicides help farmers deliver crops to markets while promoting sustainable farming by reducing soil tillage, soil erosion and carbon emissions.
  • Extensive scientific backing:  The extensive body of scientific research on glyphosate-based herbicides over four decades, as well as the assessments of the EPA and other leading health regulators worldwide, support the conclusion that Roundup™ can be used safely and is not carcinogenic. Glyphosate and Bayer’s glyphosate-based herbicides are among the most thoroughly studied products of their kind – more than 7,000 scientific studies have now been reviewed by regulators through relevant regulatory registration processes.

  • Not carcinogenic: The 2018 publication by Dr. Gabriella Andreotti and others on the Agricultural Health Study, a large prospective cohort study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, established that real-world exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides does not increase the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) when adjusted for the use of other pesticides. Other studies have reached similar conclusions, including a 2022 study by epidemiologist and biostatistician Dr. Anneclaire De Roos, the Leon Agricoh Consortium meta-analysis and the North American Pooled Project studies.
  • Additionally, research by biostatistician Dr. Cristian Tomasetti, Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention at City of Hope, and Bert Vogelstein, Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins, demonstrates that over 95% of the mutations that lead to NHL are caused by naturally occurring replication errors, and a very small portion are due to environmental or hereditary factors. Their conclusions have been widely accepted by leaders in the field of cancer prevention, and Dr. Tomasetti’s work has been cited over 10,000 times in published literature.

  • Favorable conclusions of regulators and international agencies around the world:  Leading health regulators worldwide, including the U.S. EPA, support the conclusion that Roundup™ is safe to use and glyphosate is not carcinogenic. Most recently, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) ‘did not identify any critical areas of concern’ impacting public health or the environment in their review of glyphosate in July 2023. In May 2022, as part of the European Union’s glyphosate renewal process, the European Chemicals Agency’s Committee for Risk Assessment found that ‘Based on a wide-ranging review of scientific evidence, the committee again concludes that classifying glyphosate as a carcinogen is not justified.’ In June 2021, the Assessment Group on Glyphosate (AGG) completed their draft assessment of the 2020 glyphosate dossier – including the new genotoxicity studies that meet the 2016 standards – and stated ‘The AGG proposes that classification of glyphosate as for germ cell mutagenicity genotoxic or mutagenic is not justified.’

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