Popcorn can kill you - well, almost


	Popcorn can kill you - well, almost

The REAL Napster

3-21-2007 10:44 AM

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popcorn, butter flavor, chemical, diacetyl

The REAL Napster says:

Yikes! I knew that any particulate that builds up in the lungs is bad...but to be killed by butter flavored popcorn? Scary stuff.

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<H3>Unions Petition OSHA To Deal With Slow-Motion Chemical Disaster</H3>
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border=0></A><STRONG>We've become accustomed in this country to framing 
<EM>disasters</EM> as single events involving the deaths of numerous workers 
such as Sago or the BP Texas City explosion. But the deadly damage caused to the 
lungs of hundreds of workers in this country by a butter-flavoring chemical can 
only be called a slow-motion disaster. And while OSHA fiddles, the damage to 
workers' lungs continues.</STRONG><BR><BR>Two labor unions, the United Food and 
Commercial Workers and the Teamsters, along with forty of the nation's leading 
experts in environmental and occupational health, are <A 
href="http://www.ufcw.org/docUploads/diacetylpetition.pdf?CFID=1062521&amp;CFTOKEN=80011358">petitioning 
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration</A> today for an 
<STRONG>Emergency Temporary Standard</STRONG> to prevent workers from being 
exposed to <STRONG>diacetyl</STRONG>, a butter flavoring chemical that has 
caused a deadly lung disease known as <STRONG>"popcorn lung"</STRONG> among 
workers in microwave popcorn facilities and other factories where flavorings are 
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