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Jury awards $2 billion to Roundup user

It is the third case to be awarded damages

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A jury has awarded $2 billion US in damages to a California couple who claim Roundup caused their cancers.

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The jury decided Bayer, which bought Roundup-maker Monsanto for $66 billion, is liable because of past failures to warn about the health risks.

The World Health Organization has decided that Roundup may potentially cause cancer.

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The plaintiffs, Alva and Alberta Pilliod, used Roundup on their home property for about 30 years and recently both have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

It is the third court award against Bayer. DeWayne Lee Johnson, a school custodian, won an award of $289 million, subsequently capped at $78.5 million, and Edwin Hardeman was awarded $80 million earlier this year.

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