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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.

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July 31, 2006
Sacramento Bee, "Investigative Report: Flavoring agent destorys lungs"
          Many public health physicians and scientists believe they are on the verge of uncovering an occupational health epidemic among the thousands of men and women who have worked on production lines in the nation's flavoring factories who were exposed to the chemical diacetyl.
         Without proper protections, workers who make the flavor mixes in batches of 50 to 5,000 pounds can inhale highly toxic fumes as they pour chemical liquids into huge blenders.
          The swiftness and severity of the disease alarmed Barbara Materna, California's chief of occupational health. "When you have young people on a lung transplant list and unable to work, it's a very serious problem," said Materna.
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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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