"Australian judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Bayer weedkiller causes blood cancer," 25 July 2023

An Australian judge... dismissed a class action lawsuit claiming Bayer's Roundup weedkiller can cause a type of blood cancer, a ruling the company said it would seek to leverage in similar cases being fought in the United States.

More than 1,000 people had joined the lawsuit, claiming Roundup's active ingredient, glyphosate, caused their non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL). Justice Michael Lee of Australia's Federal Court said in his ruling he had reviewed three types of scientific studies... that looked at the links between glyphosate and lymphoma and was not satisfied there was sufficient evidence that the chemical caused the cancer in humans.

[Bayer] has been battling lawsuits over Roundup in the United States since it bought the product's owner Monsanto in 2018. It still faces more than 50,000 outstanding Roundup claims there...

Bayer spokesman Philipp Blank said that while said the Australian and U.S. judicial systems were very different, "we will of course try to leverage the conclusion of the very science-based approach from the Australian legal system in the litigation in the U.S."

"This is a win for Australian farmers," said Warren Inwood, a Bayer executive in Australia.