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Chemical Agents of Opportunity for Terrorism: TICs & TIMs

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<strong>Chemical</strong> <strong>Agents</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Opportunity</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Terrorism</strong><br />

Training Support Package<br />

Participant Guide<br />

Slide 37<br />

In 1981, 20,000 people were poisoned by consuming adulterated rapeseed oil.<br />

This epidemic occurred because <strong>of</strong> adulteration <strong>of</strong> a falsely labeled cooking oil with an<br />

industrial dye (aniline) in the processing portion <strong>of</strong> the food chain <strong>for</strong> a large area <strong>of</strong><br />

Spain.<br />

This poisoning resulted in 12,000 hospital admissions and over 300 deaths. Based on<br />

clinical reports the acute phase was a respiratory illness with patients exhibiting<br />

eosinophilic pneumonia, hypertension, and scleroderma-like changes.<br />

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