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Artificial popcorn flavor chemical verdict of $7.5 m will have investors "popping" mad!

By Steve Lombardi

A verdict by a Sioux City, Iowa jury awarded $7.5 million for the death of a worker after he developed a rare lung condition, broncholitis obliterans. The worker was a butter flavor mixer with American Popcorn Company.

Ronald Kuiper, who passed away on Wednesday afternoon, was formerly employed at American Popcorn Company as a butter flavor mixer. He had been diagnosed with the rare lung condition called broncholitis obliterans, which has been linked to artificial butter flavor exposure.

The product and chemical is butter flavor containing diacetyl, a chemical which has been found by the National Institute of Safety and Health to cause severe lung injury.

OSHA: HAZARD COMMUNICATION GUIDANCE FOR DIACETYL AND FOOD FLAVORINGS CONTAINING DIACETYLHAZARD COMMUNICATION GUIDANCE FOR DIACETYL AND FOOD FLAVORINGS CONTAINING DIACETYL

NIOSH Science Blog: Diacetyl and Food Flavorings

A Case of Regulatory Failure - Popcorn Workers Lung

NC Dept. of Labor: Hazard Alert

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).