Bayer’s Other Legal Mess: An Old Liability Many Have Forgotten
- Roundup grabs headlines, but toxic PCBs from 1970s pose risks
- Legal woes already dominated by thousands of weed-killer suits
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it acquired Monsanto Co.
While thousands of damage claims over Roundup have grabbed headlines and hogged the attention of investors, the German conglomerate also has become a target of lawsuits by American states and cities trying to clean up toxic PCBs, a widely used fire-resistant chemical compound that the U.S. banned four decades ago.