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: Tyler Personal Injury LawyerCalifornia Moves to Ban Flavoring in Popcorn Linked to Workers' Illness
By Bruce Roberts
Since 2001 academic studies have shown causal links between bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of restrictive lung disease and the chemical used in artificial butter flavoring called Diacetyl. Flavoring manufacturers have already paid out more than $100,000,000.00 in personal injury lawsuits by people sickened by what is now known as "popcorn workers' lung" over the past five years. One death from the disease has already been confirmed.
Full post as published by Tyler Personal Injury Lawyer on May 17, 2007 (boomark / email).
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