Questões de Língua Inglesa do ano 2004

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In Britain, GM foods were completely banned thanks to a tight-lipped campaign by consumers.

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A possible caption for the picture included in the text can be: I bet you’ve never heard anything about genetically modified crops.

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It can be infered from the text that food poisoning may be connected with misleading or false information printed on food products.

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The Food Standards Agency is especially concerned with consumers’ spontaneous reactions to misleading or false information that packers and sellers use when labeling their goods.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that few of the cosmetic products available in the market could be called allergy-free.

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Scientists’ lack of interest in the cosmetics industry in general leads to their failure to produce or publish studies that would conclusively solve the polemic surrounding “hypoallergenic” products.

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Most of the food labeling irregularities that a consumer finds should be reported immediately and exclusively to shopkeepers.

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Some of the information collected by the Food Standards Agency is so alarming or potentially dangerous that it prefers not to inform the general public about it, so that there will be no panic.

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Minimizing public health risks effectively should be very simple: all a country has to do is to control and research about diseases in general and prevent infected foods or animals from entering its territory.

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The avian flu affects not only birds but also people.

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