Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease in cattle that can

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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease in cattle that can spread to humans through the consumption of beef. A government ministry plans to reassure consumers of beef that sufficient controls are in place at farms to render nonexistent the risk of contracting BSE from beef. Prohibitions against cattle's eating other cattle brain tissue and regulations on the treatment of cattle waste have been put in place and dramatically reduced BSE cases. But diagnosis of BSE is difficult: it has an incubation period of months to years, during which there are no symptoms. At present, there is virtually no way to detect BSE reliably except by examining post-mortem brain tissue. And beef is known to be produced and sold from cattle that have not undergone testing.

Which of the following, if performed by the government ministry, could logically be expected to overcome the problem with their plan to reassure consumers of beef?

A- Publishing educational material explaining that the threat of BSE has been dramatically reduced
B- Requiring all beef that has not been directly tested for BSE to be labelled as such
C- Investing in techniques, which have shown substantial promise, to detect BSE in bovine blood
D- Exacting steep fines from vendors of beef sold from cows whose brain tissue has not been tested
E- Quarantining all cattle from farms at which any case of BSE has been detected until the threat has been conclusively eradicated

Luckisnoexcuse · Answer

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease in cattle that can spread to humans through the consumption of beef. A government ministry plans to reassure consumers of beef that sufficient controls are in place at farms to render nonexistent the risk of contracting BSE from beef. Prohibitions against cattle's eating other cattle brain tissue and regulations on the treatment of cattle waste have been put in place and dramatically reduced BSE cases. But diagnosis of BSE is difficult: it has an incubation period of months to years, during which there are no symptoms. At present, there is virtually no way to detect BSE reliably except by examining post-mortem brain tissue. And beef is known to be produced and sold from cattle that have not undergone testing.

Which of the following,  if performed by the government ministry, could logically be expected to overcome the problem with their plan to reassure consumers of beef ?

A- Publishing educational material explaining that the threat of BSE has been dramatically reduced
B- Requiring all beef that has not been directly tested for BSE to be labelled as such
C- Investing in techniques, which have shown substantial promise, to detect BSE in bovine blood
D- Exacting steep fines from vendors of beef sold from cows whose brain tissue has not been tested
E- Quarantining all cattle from farms at which any case of BSE has been detected until the threat has been conclusively eradicated

Chose E with gut instincts...Expert Help Required...  GMATNinja

Hatakekakashi · Answer

Argument states - At present, there is virtually no way to detect BSE reliably except by examining post-mortem brain tissue. And beef is known to be produced and sold from cattle that have not undergone testing.

How to overcome this problem

a- does not help 
b - if the brain is not tested , labeling it for BSE might help overcome
c - argument states no methods to detect BSE hence incorrect
d - you can sell without testing , hence no point of fines ( similar to option C goes against the passage) incorrect
e - how do you detect BSE? you cant. you have to test the tissue before you sell , which isnt possible

C D E are against the passage
A is out of scope

chose B

kudos if this helps

mailabhishekmathur · Answer

A)Education material is a good way to get the information to the public but this material will only land up in the hands of a small segment of the society. The government wants maximum of the public reassured about the quality of the product
b)By mentioning that the beef is untested on the label, the government would let everyone buying the product know about the quality of the product.
C)This is something which is helpful to eradicate the problem in the long run, but investing will not assure the public about the products presently used.
D) Steep fines on the companies would indeed help the government curtail the number of companies selling untested beef, but in the public will be unable to identify the untested products from the tested ones
E)This is the second best option: This will again curtail the spread of BSE but the public will have no idea about the type of beef present in the market

puneetj88 · Answer

Government plans to reassure people about BSE, so labeling all tested beef will be the only conclusive way of reassuring people that they are eating BSE free beef. 
Easy choice B

rohan2345 · Answer

Explanation.

Reading the question: Since the prompt is lengthy and chunky-looking, we might drift down to the question stem. Laziness can be a force for good. From the question stem, we see this question has a touch of complexity: there is a plan, and there is a problem with the plan, and we're asked for a solution. The stem also pretty much tells us what the plan is.

Creating the filter: We go read the prompt, looking for more about the plan and the identification of the problem. The problem starts with the word "but": there is a long incubation period, and furthermore we sell beef without testing it. Two solutions that spring to mind involve having a time machine or testing the beef. Testing the beef is probably too obvious, but it's better than the time machine, so we'll take that and go to the answer choices.

Applying the filter: (A) doesn't match our filter. (B) is related to testing. (C) is a new form of testing that sounds promising. (D) is actually similar to our prediction. (E) is not about testing, but seems logical. We can try to make our filter more specific. The right answer must relate definitively to the plan and overcoming the problem with the plan. The plan is to "reassure consumers" that controls are in place. We realize that (C), (D), and (E) could all happen without consumers having any idea that the measures had been taken. (B) is the only one that reassures consumers at all, regardless of the fact it's a less complete solution to BSE. The correct answer is (B).

omkarkhanvilkar · Answer

The problem at hand is strengthening government's initiative for reassuring public about beef and not to find ways to reduce BSE cases or safeguard people from them. With this pre-thinking, we can eliminate all options that do not directly put the consumer in touch with information. So B is the best answer as it is something that is most related to the customer.

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