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It was not a scandal, it was criminal negligence, with lots of victims. My hyphothesis after talking with chemists in the field is that someone reused a contai
by pipio21 10y ago
It was not a scandal, it was criminal negligence, with lots of victims.
My hyphothesis after talking with chemists in the field is that someone reused a container tank for synthetic oil in order to carry rapeseed oil.
The rapeseed oil dissolves synthetic oil easily.
They probably thought nothing would happen because of ignorance on the part of the man that made it. He probably used water in order to clean the original tank.
We have some bottles today of the stuff that was retired from the market and could analyze it. There are traces on it of synthetic oil components.
This oil was sold in cheap rural markets, with a green colorant in order for it to look similar to olive oil.
Because of rapeseed accident, nobody in Spain uses rapeseed anymore. They use sunflower oil. Cheap oil from big multinationals that make things like cookies is basically Palm oil.
Palm oil is destroying a big part of the world natural environment.
- Rezo 10y agoThe article makes a convincing argument that it had nothing to do with oil at all and the government knew this from the start. Sounds like criminal negligence on the government's part.
- reo9Sahx 10y agoYou did not read the article
- lovemenot 10y agoBy introducing such an irrelevant yet controversial topic as palm oil, this comment appears to deliberately attempt to deflect the thrust of the 2001 article: organophospates on tomatoes probably, not contaminated oils of any kind, were responsible for this epidemic.
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- Bartweiss 10y agoThis is both irrelevant and inaccurate to the article. The claim is of scandal, specifically a conscious cover-up and dishonest presentation of evidence. Moreover, nothing in this theory addresses the core observation here: the pattern of illness is completely unaligned with oil consumption, but matches the Almerian tomato distribution quite well.
- SixSigma 10y ago> it was criminal negligence, with lots of victims wow, that's scandalous !
- kgwgk 10y ago> My hyphothesis after talking with chemists in the field is that someone reused a container tank for synthetic oil in order to carry rapeseed oil. Why not the "official" version? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_oil_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_oil_syndrome "The cause was traced to the consumption of colza oil that had been intended for industrial rather than food use. To discourage human consumption, the oil was denatured by the addition of aniline to make it smell and taste bad. It was then imported as cheap industrial oil by the company RAPSA at San Sebastián, handled by RAELCA and illegally refined by ITH in Seville to remove the aniline, resulting in a palatable product that could then be illegally sold."