Update: Bayer to pay up to €10 billion to settle bulk of Roundup weedkiller cancer lawsuits

The ruling, which permanently bars California from requiring a cancer warning on glyphosate-based products, is separate from wider litigation over whether Roundup causes a type of blood cancer.

California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment had listed glyphosate in July 2017 as a chemical known to the state to cause cancer, but Bayer’s Monsanto unit (which owns the product) aggressively fought California’s move.

Bayer, after more than a year of talks, agreed to pay as much as €9.8 billion to settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weed killer Roundup caused cancer, resolving litigation that has pummeled the company’s share price.