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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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| September 7, 2005 |
NewsInferno.com (NY), "Missouri Jury
Awards Former Popcorn Plant Worker $15 Million
for Injuries Caused by Chemicals Used to Make Butter
Flavoring" |
On Friday a former popcorn-plant worker was given $15 million for his claim that his exposure to butter-flavoring fumes led to severe respiratory problems. The case was filed by Stephen McNeely a 35-year-old machine operator from Carthage, Missouri, who filled popcorn bags with salt and butter flavoring.
McNeely is one of many former workers for International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. of New York, a subsidiary of Bush Boake Allen Inc., to file lawsuits against the company. Last week’s verdict brings the total awarded in the last two years to nearly $53 million.
The plant where the plaintiffs worked, the Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. microwave popcorn factory in Jasper, Missouri, has paid the employees workers’ compensation and has not been involved in the lawsuits
McNeely worked at the Jasper plant from 1989 to 2001 and developed bronchiolitis obliterans, a serious and unusual lung disease that may require him to get a lung transplant. |
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currently representing workers with "popcorn workers" lung
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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...
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