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Bayer asks California appeals court to throw out $78 million Roundup verdict

Bayer AG on Wednesday asked a California appellate court to throw out a $78 million judgment it was ordered to pay to a school groundskeeper who claimed the company’s weed killers gave him cancer.
 
In a filing in California’s Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, the company said that there was “no evidence” that glyphosate, a chemical found in the company’s Roundup and Ranger Pro products, could cause cancer.
 
“Bayer stands behind these products and will continue to vigorously defend them,” the company said in a news release.
 
The widely-used weed killers are made by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired last year for $63 billion.
 
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