The biotech company is lobbying Congress to pass legislation that could protect it from thousands of lawsuits alleging that the product causes cancer, the 18 July report said.

A draft of the upcoming farm bill includes language that would make it harder for farmers and others to claim in court that they were not sufficiently warned of the potential dangers associated with prolonged use of the weedkiller’s main ingredient, glyphosate.

According to a Washington Post report, the provision was drafted by lawyers with the help of Bayer and seeks to create uniformity on national pesticide labelling and to prevent individual states from making their own warnings.

It would also stop courts from penalising or holding companies like Bayer liable if their products only included labels that had previously been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), WVPE and Harvest Public Media report said.

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Bayer, which acquired Roundup as part of its US$63bn acquisition of US agrochemical company Monsanto in 2018, has repeatedly said that decades of studies had shown the product and its active ingredient, glyphosate, were safe for human use.

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