AgNews reports:
Bayer has plans to introduce a substitute for glyphosate – the active ingredient in Roundup weedkiller – within four years, The Peninsular quoted the company’s chief executive as telling local media.
โณWe are testing this new substance on real plants. It’s the first … innovation in this area in 30 years. Our objective is to have it on the market in 2028,โณ Bill Anderson told German Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
Since buying US agrochemicals company Monsanto – which owned Roundup – for US$63bn in 2018, Bayer has faced a series of court cases in the USA, with plaintiffs alleging that Roundup had caused their cancers.
Bayer has repeatedly said that decades of studies had shown that Roundup and its active ingredient, glyphosate, were safe for human use.
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