The San Francisco Federal Court jury found that Bayer AG glyphosate-based weed control agent causes cancer. This is the second legal blow to the company after eight months ago another jury decided to recover damages in the amount of $ 289 million in similar cases in another case.

The unanimous decision of the jury on Tuesday in the federal court of San Francisco, issued after a five-day discussion, was not a recognition of Bayer's responsibility for the cancer of the plaintiff Edwin Hardeman, it was only a recognition of the harm of the drug. The issue of liability and losses will be decided by the same jury at the second stage of the trial.

Bayer, a German multinational pharmaceutical company and biomedical company, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, who bought longtime manufacturer Roundup for $ 63 billion, disagrees with the claim that glyphosate or Roundup cause cancer. The company said it was disappointed with the jury’s initial decision and the jury was too much influenced by allegations of plaintiff attorneys for corporate misconduct.

Glyphosate is the most widely used weed control in the world. Monsanto's Roundup was the first glyphosate-based weed killer, but it is no longer patent protected and many other versions are available. Bayer does not provide product sales data today.