toxic oil syndrome

English

Noun

toxic oil syndrome (uncountable)

  1. An unusual disease that broke out in Spain in 1981, resembling a lung infection but unaffected by antibiotics, caused by the consumption of imported rapeseed oil, intended for industrial use, that had been sold as olive oil.
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