Errors in Reasoning Questions - - Question 1

The common procedure for determining whether a food additive should be banned from use is to compare its health-relat...

Ashley-Tien-2 May 6, 2021

C?

I'm always told to anticipate the answer choice if possible but the issue with that is that I often anticipate the wrong choice or something that never even shows up. For this question, I thought the problem was that the author believed the "health benefit," aka the soda tasting good, outweighed the risk of it causing allergic reactions so C was tempting for me. Is C problematic because the author isn't actually ignoring the health risks? He did acknowledge it could potentially cause allergic reactions.

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Ashley-Tien-2 May 6, 2021

And I guess it says the food additive is harmful to "most people" which the stimulus says it might only affect a few...so I guess this goes too far...could someone confirm whether my thinking process is correct?