The large punitive damage award of 250 million dollars is because the jury found that Monsanto knowingly and willfully deceived customers claiming Round Up was safe when they knew differently.

The jury found that this chemical caused "substantial catastrophic" damages to the plaintiff.

Bayer, who purchased Monsanto some years ago, stock price fell as much as 15% after this defeat in court

The big 450 plaintiff multi district suit now in progress in San Francisco is the next big challenge for Bayer and could go on for some time

The paper, published Feb. 2, 2016 in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Sciences Europe, reports that to date 18.9 billion pounds (8.6 billion kilograms) of glyphosate have been used globally. Glyphosate use has risen almost 15-fold since so-called “Roundup Ready” genetically engineered crops were introduced in 1996.

In 2014, enough glyphosate was sprayed to leave more than three-quarters of a pound of the active ingredient on every harvested acre of cropland in the U.S., and remarkably, almost a half pound per acre on all cropland worldwide (0.53 kilogram/hectare).

Carey Gillam, investigative reporter and author gives us analysis of recent court victory again