The weedkiller at the center of a lawsuit in the United States, in which a couple who claimed that Bayer AG's glyphosate-based Roundup weedicide caused their cancer was awarded US$2 billion in damages, is commonly used in Taiwan but barred from use on non-farmland, the authorities said Tuesday.
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