The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.

had implemented and had tried

let me go with C.

my ans E

IMO E .

Since this is in past and making statements looking into future, it should be WOULD and not WILL.

Hence E

prachich1987 wrote:The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.

a it will try
b that it tried
c it had tried
d it would have tried
e that it would try

Source :gmatclub
OA : after some discussion

The OA is indeed E
But can we use comma before THAT?

prachich1987 wrote:The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.

a it will try
b that it tried
c it had tried
d it would have tried
e that it would try

Source :gmatclub
OA : after some discussion

IMO - E
will/would : Summary:
1.Would and will are both auxiliary modal verbs.
2.Will is used to talk about definite future actions.
3.Will is used to talk about: quick decisions, promises, offers and a likely prediction
4.Would is used to talk about: invitations, requests, asking permission, talking about preferences and making arrangements.
Both will and would can be used in conditional statements.

Read more: https://www.differencebetween.net/langua ... -and-will/

The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, that it would try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.

Great demo, AIM GMAT - to answer Prachich's question, the "that" is actually required to make that section of the sentence parallel. Answering even further, "that" after a comma works in this case because the commas around:

..., despite the recent illnesses, ....

contain a nonessential modifier. When you see a modifying phrase bracketed by commas, the commas serve as a way to make that modifier "easily removable", like a temporary extension to a dinner table for when company comes (if any of you had that growing up...I remember helping my mom extend the table for Thanksgiving every year). The GMAT loves to extend sentences with nonessential modifiers because it distracts the reader from big-picture errors like subject/verb agreement or, in this case, parallelism. So as a strategic point, when you see those commas separating out nonessential modifiers, try reading the sentence as though that portion isn't there, and you'll typically make your job easier.