The legal disputes in the United States the weed killer glyphosate, are a bottomless pit for the Leverkusen-based chemical giant. Now a new Trouble threatens because of old sins: the chemical PCB.
The County of Los Angeles draws against Bayer, a subsidiary of Monsanto to the field. He complains before the relevant California Federal district court over environmental damage that may have been caused decades ago by polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB). The industrial chemical has been banned since 2004 in the world – but everywhere in the world, in the atmosphere, in soil and in water is undetectable. The US company Monsanto is said to have been from 1935 to 1977, the only PCB manufacturer in the USA. In 1979, the chemical was banned.
The applicants claim that the present-day Bayer subsidiary now have, for decades, the devastating effects of toxic pollutants on nature and living things concealed. Therefore, Monsanto at the cost of the cleanup of dozens with PCBS must participate-chemicals-infested waters, and punitive damages to pay. Bayer announced on demand to check the action is still pending. However assuming that the allegations are baseless.
Bayer leads many Monsanto processes
The Bayer group intends to defend itself vigorously. Monsanto stopped PCB production more than 40 years ago on a voluntary basis. Before that, it had been to a variety of customers from industry and manufacturing to be sold, which would have used it for various purposes. Among the clients at that time, the US was the government.
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Billion penalty for Bayer
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Billion penalty for Bayer due to glyphosate
Against the Agro-chemical giant Monsanto, the Bayer group last year for around 63 billion dollars had bought, already run numerous U.S. cases. Most of the time it comes to the question of whether the cancer hazards of the weed killer glyphosate. In the third glyphosate-process in the United States, Bayer was sentenced in the first instance to two billion dollars punishment.
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