Bayer says glyphosate does not cause cancer [Video]

ST. LOUIS — There’s a fierce debate swirling in Missouri and nationwide about the safety of the most popular weed-killer on the market: Roundup. Its parent company Bayer has shelled out billions of dollars to defend its product. Thousands of people nationwide have sued claiming the pesticide’s active ingredient glyphosate caused non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

While the majority of juries nationwide have determined that Roundup is not the cause of their cancer, others juries have found the pesticide’s active ingredient glyphosate caused non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, according to a Bayer spokesperson.

“What I went through was heartbreaking … No corporation should get away with anything like that in the United States,” said Leon Smith, a St. Louis-based Roundup plaintiff.

Now, a week after the I-Team’s first report about newly proposed legislation in Missouri to shield pesticide-makers from liability, we sit down with a leader at Bayer at its sprawling St. Louis campus.

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