Study links popcorn flavoring to lung disease

[MrCoffee]

:popcorn: cough cough :popcorn: cough

WASHINGTON - A chemical used to give butter flavor to popcorn can damage the lungs and airways of mice, U.S. government experts reported on Thursday.

Tests on mice show that diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavoring, can cause a condition known as lymphocytic bronchiolitis, said the team at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health.

The condition can lead to obliterative bronchiolitis — or ”popcorn lung” — a rare and debilitating disease seen in workers at microwave popcorn packaging plants and at least one consumer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23613160/

[Tektonik]

1. I've stopped touching the stuff since the first suspicions about it were known

That shit is vile anyhow :puke:

[nomorenomore08]

2. As if microwaves causing cancer wasn't bad enough...

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