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An
outbreak of a severe lung disease has occurred among workers exposed to artificial
butter flavoring at factories producing microwave popcorn.
Click here to contact attorneys and lawyers for microwave popcorn and other snack industry workers with lung injuries. |
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Associated Press, "Popcorn worker's lawsuit claims lung damage" |
A woman who worked at the Pop Secret microwave popcorn plant in Iowa City has sued several companies that manufacture butter flavoring, claiming that inhaling the flavoring gave her a rare lung disease. |
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Vicki Stillmunkes, 46, of Cedar Rapids, said in the lawsuit filed in federal court that she was diagnosed with the disease, bronchial obliterans, after working at the plant for about five years. The disease is commonly known as "popcorn
packer's lung."
Earlier this year,
Eric Peoples of Carthage, Mo., was awarded $20 million by a jury after he claimed
he got the disease from working in a popcorn plant. The defendant in that case,
International Flavors and Fragrances Inc., of New York, is one of the companies
named in Stillmunkes' lawsuit. The attorney in the Missouri case, Ken McClain,
is representing Stillmunkes.
Another of her lawyers, Kathryn Barnett, works for the national law firm of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, that has been actively seeking out former popcorn plant workers for possible lawsuits. "We hope to help the people we represent, and if others seek us out we would certainly consider trying to help them as well," Barnett
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| Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein,
LLP, is one of the largest law firms in the nation that represents
only plaintiffs. We have a team of personal injury lawyers,
assisted by multiple nurses, scientific advisors and medical
experts, dedicated to advancing our clients interests, including
clients that have suffered permanent lung injuries. We are
currently representing workers with "popcorn workers" lung
disease. |
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to practice, we have affiliations with local attorneys who serve as co-counsel
with our firm, including attorneys throughout the midwest. For example, in
Indiana, we are associated with the Indiana law firm of Cohen & Malad, LLP in this litigation. In Missouri, we are associated with attorney Kenneth B. McClain of the law firm Humphrey, Farrington & McClain,
P.C. Please read our disclaimer. |
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"Popcorn
firms removing diacetyl linked to lung ailments
in factory workers"
December 18, 2007, Associated Press
The nation's four biggest makers of microwave popcorn have removed a flavoring
chemical linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers from nearly all their
products. The companies say all their microwave popcorn recipes should be changed
by January. More...
To read more press articles on the Popcorn Lung litigation, click
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