translated from Spanish: Another setback for Monsanto from Bayer: Chubut prohibits glyphosate

Chubut is the first Argentine province that officially prohibits the manufacture, sale and use of glyphosate throughout its territory. The decree was signed yesterday by the provincial governor, Mariano Arcioni, who had originally spoken against the initiative. In this way, the law which had been unanimously approved by the local Legislature on 16 May is endorsed. The law prohibits in all the territory of the province the “importation, introduction, possession for purposes of marketing, manufacture, fractionation, distribution, transport and application of the herbicide glyphosate in all its variants”. In the same way, “all products that have the active base or principle of glyphosate are prohibited”. Monsanto faces a complicated time. In recent months, various courts demanded that the company pay millions of dollars in compensation to individuals who suffered the alleged harmful effects of the herbicide. Last month, for example, an American jury sentenced her to pay 2 billion dollars to a couple who accused the company of having contracted a non-Hodgkin lymphoma because of the use of Roundup, the trademark.

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