Food Flavor is Causing Lung Disease

The California food flavoring workers were found to have an obstructive lung disease. This was a rare and life-threatening lung disease. This disease was also known as popcorn workers lung. It slowly eliminates lung capacity and necessitates a transplant.

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Artificial butter flavoring called diacetyle, which is used in microwave popcorn flavoring plants is linked with this disease. Many flavoring manufacturers have paid hundreds of million dollars for workers affected with this disease. Now the politicians and workers are on their way to ban this chemical. One death was also confirmed because of this.

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