Is a new “glyphosate” case about to break out? This is without doubt the nightmare of Bayer, whose image has already been seriously tarnished by the acquisition in 2018 of Monsanto, the manufacturer of the controversial Roundup, the best-selling pesticide in the world, based on glyphosate. The German pharmaceutical and agrochemical giant was condemned last year by a Californian jury to pay 267 million euros to a gardener suffering from an incurable cancer, for not having sufficiently informed of the dangerousness of Roundup . This time, Bayer finds himself in turmoil with his compatriot BASF. The two groups were sentenced by a Missouri federal court to pay € 244 million in compensation to a farmer. The latter, Bill Bader, criticizes their pesticide dicamba for destroying its peach orchards. This is the first trial in the United States concerning dicamba. But there could be others. The two companies are being sued by more
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