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Bayer’s Monsanto was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion Friday over claims its patented weed-killer, Roundup, was linked to users’ cancer, Bloomberg reported.

James Draeger, Valerie Gunther and Dan Anderson were each awarded a total of $61.1 million in actual damages and $500 million each in punitive damages by jurors in state court in Jefferson City, Missouri.

The three people alleged that their non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas — a type of cancer that begins in your lymphatic system, part of the body’s immune system — were caused by years of using Roundup while gardening.

Late last month, a Missouri state court jury awarded $1.25 million to a man claiming he developed cancer from exposure to Roundup, Courtroom View Network reported. Bayer attributes its winning trial record in litigation over its herbicide to confidence that its “products can be used safely and are not carcinogenic,” the company told the outlet.