Flavoring Workers' Lung (Popcorn/Diacetyl) ConAgra Drops Diacetyl – and Prompts More Questions About Unreleased Research
September 5, 2007 The Pump Handle 13Comment

Last week, Pop Weaver announced that it was eliminating diacetyl from its microwave popcorn products. Today, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Associated Press report that ConAgra will remove diacetyl from its Orville Redenbacher and Act II microwave popcorn over the next year. This news comes as David Michaels’s post here about federal agencies’ inadequate response to […]

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Flavoring Workers' Lung (Popcorn/Diacetyl) Popcorn Lung Coming to Your Kitchen? The FDA Doesn’t Want to Know
September 4, 2007 The Pump Handle 41Comment

By David Michaels Updated Below For the past several years, news articles and Congressional hearings have reported on a deadly, irreversible lung disease – bronchiolitis obliterans – that is caused by workers’ exposure to food flavoring chemicals, and more specifically by exposure to a butter-flavoring chemical called diacetyl. So far, attention has focused on worker […]

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Worker Health & Safety Where We Are on Labor Day
September 3, 2007 The Pump Handle

For those of us fortunate enough to have Labor Day off from work, it’s a good time to remember all the workers who can’t take a day off because we rely so heavily on them: hospital staff, police officers, bus drivers, power-company workers, and many others. Then, there are the retail and restaurant workers who […]

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