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Much more research is needed to understand the impact on human health of chronic dietary exposures to pesticides, many say.
American business is at risk of plunging into a race to the bottom.
Glyphosate has been touching the environment and public health in vast quantities for decades.
German drugmaker Bayer is the buyer.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Monsanto is expanding in a country it once helped destroy.
The widely reviled seed and pesticide giant thinks it's worth more money.
Monsanto, which said last week it had a received an approach from Bayer but gave no details, has yet to comment on the offer.
The agricultural giant seems like it "forgot to sacrifice a goat to the gods."
Any deal could raise U.S. antitrust concerns because of the overlap in the seeds business.