Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options, pick the one that gives their correct order. A. So, what exactly are we eating? B. They found that the vegetables contained very high, toxic levels of banned pesticides and the pesticide levels were more than 1000 times the permissible levels. C. And is our food giving rise to the many health problems today? D. A survey conducted by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Union Agriculture Ministry tested random samples of vegetables in markets all over India.

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Out of the given options, pick the one that gives their correct order. A. So, what exactly are we eating? B. They found that the vegetables contained very high, toxic levels of banned pesticides and the pesticide levels were more than 1000 times the permissible levels. C. And is our food giving rise to the many health problems today? D. A survey conducted by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Union Agriculture Ministry tested random samples of vegetables in markets all over India. Correct Answer DBAC

The correct answer is DBAC.

Key Points

  •  While arranging the parts of the passage, we should find some grammatical or contextual connections between them:
    • Sentence D introduces us to the survey conducted by FSSAI. It is the introductory sentence and will be put in the first place.
    • Sentence B tells us about the results of the above-mentioned survey. It will be put in second place.
    • Sentence A asks us a very relevant question regarding our food choices. It will be put in third place.
    • The last sentence is C as it mentions another repercussion of the food that we eat these days.
       

Thus, the correct order is- A survey conducted by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India under the Union Agriculture Ministry tested random samples of vegetables in markets all over India. They found that the vegetables contained very high, toxic levels of banned pesticides and the pesticide levels were more than 1000 times the permissible levels. So, what exactly are we eating? And is our food giving rise to the many health problems today?

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