Weedkiller cancer claims drive Bayer to bigger loss

The loss was bigger than the 2.55 billion euros the firm lost in 2024, with Bayer pointing to the impact of "high special charges for litigations". Bayer has spent more than $10 billion settling thousands of cases linked to the Roundup weedkiller ever since it acquired its US producer, the agrichemical group Monsanto, in 2018. The International Agency for Research on Cancer considers glyphosate, one of Roundup's ingredients, a probable human carcinogen, but Bayer says scientific studies and US...