Bayer tries to clean up image in face of lawsuits over weedkiller

16 June 2019 - 00:15 By TIM LOH and NAOMI KRESGE

Bayer will pump about €5bn (about R83bn) of its research & development budget into alternatives to its weedkiller, glyphosate, over the next decade as it battles more than 13,000 lawsuits claiming the herbicide causes cancer...

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