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The Elle Corporation manufactures fingernail polish. Suzy buys a container of Elle's fingernail polish, applies it to her nails, and suffers a severe allergic reaction. She sues Elle under the implied warranty of merchantability. The test for determining whether Suzy will recover is whether:

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such a reaction in an appreciable number of consumers was reasonably foreseeable

Step-by-step explanation:

In simple words, the given case can be related to the intent to fault or hiding the fault even after knowing about it. If in he given case it was proved that the product was allergic to a number of people then it would be stated that the company manufacturing it is the culprit of branding a harmful product.

However if it came to light that only Elle was allergic to the product due to some unique medical condition then there might not be any case to file.

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