Question

The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome outbreak resembled an illness with similar symptoms that affected some 20,000 people in Spain as a result of what household item being contaminated?

Answer 1

Cooking Oil (rapeseed oil)

Step-by-step explanation:

The eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome (EMS) is a condition of health which resulted in an increased amount of the eosinophil and muscle pain called myalgia.

The symptoms resembled with the symptoms of a disease which outbreak in Spain in 1981 which affected about 20,000 people called toxic oil syndrome.

The toxic oil syndrome was caused because of the intake of the denatured rapeseed soil which was not meant to be consumed usually but made to be consumed by adding aniline to the oil. Consumption of rapeseed oil with aniline caused intoxication and other symptoms like increased eosinophils.

Thus, Cooking Oil (rapeseed oil) is the correct answer.