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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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Kansas City Star, "Flavoring company close to settling; Popcorn plant lawsuits winding down" |
More than four years after the original lawsuit was filed, the case involving workers at a Jasper, Mo., popcorn plant is finally nearing conclusion.
A New York-based butter-flavoring manufacturer recently agreed to settlement terms with 17 plaintiffs. That brings to 54 the number of former plant workers, or their spouses, who have settled their cases with International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
In addition, four cases involving seven plaintiffs resulted in jury verdicts totaling nearly $53 million. Each of those has been appealed.
Most of the plaintiffs work or worked at the Gilster-Mary Lee popcorn plant in Jasper, about 130 miles south of Kansas City. They have damaged airways and breathing problems, and have alleged in court files that their illnesses were caused by exposure to chemicals in the popcorn’s butter flavoring. |
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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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