To the Editor: The olive fruit is frequently consumed as foodand used as raw material to obtain olive oil. Olive oil is pressedin mills, where workers are exposed daily to inhalation of particlesderived from this processing. Despite widespread consumption,allergies to olive fruit and derivative products have seldombeen documented.1,2,3,4
We report on a 41-year-old man who had been working since 1993in an olive-oil mill. He was first seen in 2006, when the olive-oilmill was operating in Jaén, Spain; he had a 2-year historyof episodic rhinitis, shortness of breath, chest tightness,and wheezing. Symptoms . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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