"As a result of numerous complaints of dizziness and nausea on the part of consumers of Promofoods tuna, the company requested that eight million cans of its tuna be returned for testing. Promofoods concluded that the canned tuna did not, after all, pose a health risk. This conclusion is based on tests performed on samples of the recalled cans by chemists from Promofoods; the chemists found that of the eight food chemicals most commonly blamed for causing symptoms of dizziness and nausea, five were not found in any of the tested cans. The chemists did find small amounts of the three remaining suspected chemicals but pointed out that these occur naturally in all canned foods."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order to decide whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to the questions would help to evaluate the conclusion.
Promofoods has concluded that the canned tuna marketed by them are safe for human consumption on the basis of chemical tests conducted by their chemists on samples of the product. Though the message that the argument tries to convey is conspicuous, the presentation renders it unconvincing.
Firstly, although a mention of the number of cans requested to be returned, the author fails to mention the number of cans that were actually returned. In all likelihood, many of the consumers or retailers who had stocked the product could have failed to dispose the stocks rather than return them due to v...
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