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Re: Injections of certain chemicals [#permalink]
A - the point of the injections is to increase the crop harvest. However, if the larger crop harvest is more prone to salmonella, which reduces the harvest, then the injections really aren't helpful.
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Re: Injections of certain chemicals [#permalink]
A for me too...

2 things that would weaken FDA's plans for licensing the commercial productivity of the chemicals are:
a) increases the total cost or
b) negatively affects the plants

option A supports (b)... increase in production would increase salmonella.. decreasing product usability.
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Re: Injections of certain chemicals which are normally produced [#permalink]
feruz77 wrote:
Injections of certain chemicals which are normally produced in small amounts by many crops have been show to increase the crop harvest dramatically without an increase in plantings and other expensive treatments. The United States Foods and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to consider licensing the commercial productive of these chemicals.

Which of the following, if true, would provide the strongest criticism of the FDA’s plan?

(A) Increased plant production increases the susceptibility of salmonella developing on the crops thereby reducing the amount of useable crops.
(B) The FDA intends to employ stringent requirements when issuing permits for producing these chemicals.
(C) The chemical companies that will be producing the chemicals will obtain large short-term profits.
(D) The chemicals will not hurt the chances for survival of the family vegetable farms, which typically have small fields of crops.
(E) Many small vegetable farms are going out of business because they cannot charge prices high enough to cover their costs.


Key word here is licensing. Note that the government is not demanding that companies use this chemical. Hence E is out of the way

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Re: Injections of certain chemicals which are normally produced [#permalink]
feruz77 wrote:
Injections of certain chemicals which are normally produced in small amounts by many crops have been show to increase the crop harvest dramatically without an increase in plantings and other expensive treatments. The United States Foods and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to consider licensing the commercial productive of these chemicals.

Which of the following, if true, would provide the strongest criticism of the FDA’s plan?

(A) Increased plant production increases the susceptibility of salmonella developing on the crops thereby reducing the amount of useable crops.
(B) The FDA intends to employ stringent requirements when issuing permits for producing these chemicals.
(C) The chemical companies that will be producing the chemicals will obtain large short-term profits.
(D) The chemicals will not hurt the chances for survival of the family vegetable farms, which typically have small fields of crops.
(E) Many small vegetable farms are going out of business because they cannot charge prices high enough to cover their costs.


good question. IMO A. Increased plant production increases the susceptibility of salmonella developing on the crops thereby reducing the amount of useable crops. --> commercial productive of these chemical will not increase crop harvest
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Re: Injections of certain chemicals which are normally produced [#permalink]
only A is within the scope.
salmonella is a disease.
here, it is not about productivity but increasing productions.
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Re: Injections of certain chemicals which are normally produced [#permalink]
GMATNinja , nightblade354 Can you help with this?
As the question says we need to find an option which will weaken the FDAs Plan.
Why Can't B be the correct answer ?
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