Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement

Inside Climate News · By Liza Gross · last updated June 15, 2023 – 3:39 PM

Agrochemical giants Bayer CropScience and Monsanto violated a 1996 agreement to stop making false and misleading claims about the safety of its popular weedkillers, New York’s attorney general found.

By Liza Gross

The makers of Roundup, the world’s top weedkiller, will pay $6.9 million for violating an agreement with the state of New York to stop making false claims about the safety of its best-selling herbicides.

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