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Xavier Bosch, MD

JAMA. 1999;281:1975-1976.

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Barcelona—Spain's Cabinet of Ministers, chaired by Francisco Alvarez-Cascos, first vice president, recently approved a royal bill to immediately start payment to each of some 17,500 victims of toxic oil syndrome who applied for compensation. The disaster, which affected more than 20,000 people beginning in the spring of 1981 (not all applied for payment), was caused when rapeseed oil denatured with aniline, probably intended for industrial use, was sold illegally as cooking oil.

Several of the estimated 20,000 Spaniards who unknowingly purchased the contaminated rapeseed oil wait to exchange it with government authorities for uncontaminated oil. (Photo credit: Ediciones Doyma)

The total amount of compensation is estimated to be US $2 billion to $2.7 billion, a figure that, said economics minister Rodrigo Rato, "will indeed have a negative effect on the government's fight this year against [Spain's] general deficit."

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