A Georgia jury on March 21 ordered agrochemical giant Bayer to pay $2.1 billion in damages to a man who claimed he developed cancer after using the company’s Roundup weedkiller, which contains glyphosate.
The jury awarded the plaintiff, John Barnes, $2 billion in punitive damages and $65 million in compensatory damages over claims that Roundup weedkiller caused his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a type of cancer that forms in the lymph system.
