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Is This Why People Hate Reporters?
? As I wrote about yesterday , KUOW freelance reporter Vanessa Romo apparently saw a pair of Seattle cops tackle a homeless man, then punch him repeatedly in the head last Thursday. She's filed a report with SPD's Office of Professional Accountability ...
Congress considering regulations for popcorn manufacturers
It has been proven that an ingredient called diacetyl is linked to a deadly disease known as "popcorn lung." The Popcorn Workers Prevention Act would order OSHA to put limits on the amount of exposure to the ingredient. Representative Tim Bishop (D-New ...
Chemical linked to lung ailment nearly gone from most popcorn
The chemical diacetyl has been linked to cases of bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare life-threatening disease often called popcorn lung. Diacetyl occurs naturally in foods such as butter, cheese and fruits, and the FDA has approved its use as a flavor ingredient.
Popcorn lung victim's message: 'Don't go crazy'
CENTENNIAL (AP) - Wayne Watson pantomimed opening a bag of freshly popped microwave popcorn, holding it about chest high and breathing in as he showed how he would release the mouthwatering steam. "I wasn't snorting the stuff you know," Watson, the sole ...
Court battle drags as a popcorn flavoring company trys to prevent federal health investigators from protecting ...
Their battle to control exposure to his chemical concoction soared into prominence in August ----2000 when the NIOSH team was called to investigate an outbreak of bronchiolitis obliterans in former workers of Missouri microwave-popcorn plant. Within months ...
OSHA Recommends Safety Measures to Protect Workers from Diacetyl Exposure
A new OSHA Safety and Health Information Bulletin and companion Worker Alert recommend that employers use safety measures to prevent exposing employees to the potentially fatal health effects of butter flavorings and other flavoring substances containing ...
Healthient Introduces SnackHealthy Light-Natural Popcorn
Healthient, Inc. ( OTCBB : SNAX ) introduced SnackHealthy Light-Natural microwave popcorn, its newest product in a growing line of "better for you" snacks. Warm, delicious, and a good source of fiber, SnackHealthy Light-Natural mini-bags are the perfect ...
Hold the microwave popcorn
Recently dubbed "popcorn workers' lung" in humans, the disease is a serious and irreversible inflammation of the airways leading to the lungs. According to a group of scientists and former Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials, The EPA ...
Common butter flavor chemical ingredient causes serious lung disease
Your email privacy is 100% protected. (NaturalNews) Two workers' unions want the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to limit workers' exposure to an artificial butter flavoring ingredient that has been found to cause a ...
Flavoring Suspected in Illness
Also known as popcorn workers lung, because it has turned up in workers at microwave-popcorn factories, the disease destroys the lungs. A transplant is the only cure. Since 2001, academic studies have shown links between the disease and a chemical used in ...
Popcorn butter flavor sickens Colorado man
Wednesday Sep 5 (Foodconsumer.org) -- A chemical known as diacetyl used in microwave popcorn butter flavor was thought early to affect the workers at popcorn plants only. But a possible case in which a 53-year Colorado man has suffering a serious lung ...
Common Food Flavoring Changed Lives Forever
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cynthia White-Rhoads, Rocky Kline and Dalea and Ed Hawkins have all been diagnosed with a potentially fatal lung disease, bronchiolitis obliterans. The other commonality they share is they were all factory workers at the Marion ConAgra ...
US 'popcorn lung' sufferer compensated
Over time, Solis, a father of three, developed bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare respiratory disease that has destroyed 75 per cent of his lungs, leaving him with the minimum lung capacity a person needs to live. Fireworks displays or second-hand smoke can ...
Midway: Two fundraisers for Allison Hunt are set
Four years ago, Allison Hunt was diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans. A Motorcycle Bike Ride has been organized to assist the Hunt family in medical expenses. The ride will begin at 10 a.m. on Sept. 11 at the Tractor Supply in Lexington and will end at ...
Healthient Introduces SnackHealthy Light-Natural Popcorn
Bronchiolitis obliterans, often termed "popcorn worker's lung," an uncommon and serious lung disease, has been found in workers of several factories that produce artificial butter flavorings. About SnackHealthy, Inc. SnackHealthy is the direct sales ...
Youngster with rare illness inspires boxing pals to take on challenge
The youngster, from Walton, was diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans when he was three and has been undergoing treatment ever since. He may eventually need a lung transplant. Thomas is known to Derbyshire Police through Ozbox classes he attends with his ...
OSHA looks into health risks of food flavorings
Researchers are investigating the role of flavoring substances, including diacetyl, in the development of fixed airway obstruction and the lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans. Some manufacturers have reduced or eliminated diacetyl, but the substitutes ...
New test announced for major killer of lung transplant patients
University of Michigan researchers hope a new diagnostic tool they developed to predict bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) will allow doctors to intervene earlier and, ultimately, to provide life-saving treatments. BOS is the leading cause of death ...
New Diagnostic Tool To Detect Complications In Lung Transplant Patients
In the complication known as bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS), scar tissue builds up in the lungs and chokes off the ability to breathe. BOS is the leading cause of death for those who survive one year after lung transplantation and more than half ...
New tool to predict killer syndrome in lung transplant patients
The new diagnostic tool to predict bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) will allow doctors to intervene earlier and, ultimately, to provide life-saving treatments. The new findings have implications for people suffering from other types of lung disease ...
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