Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, Including Roundup, From U.S. Home and Garden Market.<br />On July 29, Bayer announced that it will no longer sell glyphosate-containing products to U.S. home gardeners.<br />EcoWatch reports that the announcement comes as the company currently faces around 30,000 legal claims that these products are cancer-causing. .<br />Bayer's decision to end U.S. residential <br />sale of Roundup is a historic victory for <br />public health and the environment. <br />As agricultural, large-scale use of this <br />toxic pesticide continues, our farmworkers <br />remain at risk. It's time for EPA to act <br />and ban glyphosate for all uses, Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety, via EcoWatch.<br />Glyphosate remains a controversial ingredient as it has been linked to the development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, as noted by Cure.<br />In 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that it was "probably carcinogenic to humans.".<br />Under former President Donald Trump, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruled that the chemical did not pose a risk to human health.<br />However, the Biden Administration later admitted that the review had been flawed and that it needed to be redone.<br />Bayer's reportedly inherited the bevy of lawsuits when it acquired Monsanto in 2018.<br />In 2020, Bayer settled around 95,000 cases in 2020 to the tune of $10 billion.<br />That settlement, one of the largest in U.S. history, allowed Bayer to continue to sell Roundup without adding any warnings to their products. .<br />However, EcoWatch points out that the company still faces further litigation, and said it decided to pull the product from residential use in order to prevent more.<br />AgWeb reported that over 90% of recent claims come from the residential home and garden market.<br />"This move is being made exclusively to manage litigation risk and not because of any safety concerns," the company said when it announced its decision.<br />The products will be replaced with different active ingredients beginning in 2023, following reviews by the EPA and state regulatory bodies.<br />"This is from a regulatory and logistical point of view (of what's) possible," Condon said during a conference call with investors, as AgWeb reported
