Weedkiller

Bayer separately inherited liability for litigation over whether the weedkiller Roundup causes cancer when it spent $63 billion in 2018 to buy Monsanto.

Preston City Council has pledged to reduce its reliance on a controversial weedkiller which is currently used to treat parks, pavements and roads in its patch.

FILE PHOTO: A woman uses a Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller spray without glyphosate in a garden in Ercuis near Paris, France, May 6, 2018.

For those who prefer a ready-to-use product, Amazon offers the Roundup Fast Action Weedkiller 3L for £21.03, while Argos has the Roundup Pump 'n Go Weed Killer 5L priced at £30.

Wiltshire Council says it plans to send out teams on quad bikes in October to spray them with weedkiller – but the use of chemicals is against Trowbridge Town Council’s eco-policy.

Yesterday, another Philadelphia jury ordered Bayer to pay nearly $3.5 million to a woman who alleged that the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused her cancer.

It said the amount of weedkiller used should be ‘as low as reasonably practicable’.

Roundup is a weedkiller that contains glyphosate, a herbicide chemical often used by homeowners to treat their lawns.

Homebase reviews its range of weedkiller after US court finds Roundup contributed to groundsman's cancer and.

Roundup is used on a massive scale in global agriculture, in combination with Monsanto’s Roundup Ready arable crop seeds, which are modified to resist the weedkiller while the weeds around them die.