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Liability Risk and Insurance

Spanish oil

In 1981 more than 400 people died and 17,000 fell sick, some permanently, from the use of industrial-grade rape seed oil disguised as olive oil. The factory owners responsible were jailed in 1983 but the exact mechanism of harm remained unclear.

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