Question

A coworker brings you a bag of oatmeal in which he has found black specks. What is the MOST LIKELY cause of those specks?

The bag was left open and dirt and/or dust has settled on the oatmeal.
The supplier’s bulk bins have not been cleaned, and rust has built up in them.
Pests have entered the bag and left waste secretions in the oatmeal.
Oatmeal usually has black spots on the flakes, so the cause is natural.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct option is C) Pests have entered the bag and left waste secretions in the oatmeal.

Explanation:

Black specks are the illustration of the eggs or waste of certain kinds of pests or parasites. Black specks can also be observed in animals or humans when a certain parasite infects it. Hence, we can easily illustrate that those black specks in the oatmeal bag were due to waste secretions of a pest.

Other options, like option D, cannot be true because generally, oatmeals do not have any kind of black spots on the flakes.