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EPA Studies Vapors From Microwave Popcorn
Updated: Thursday, Mar. 11, 2004 - 8:19 AM

http://www.wtop.com/index.php?sid=177948&nid=104


By CONNIE FARROW
Associated Press Writer

(AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency is studying the chemicals released into the air when a bag of microwave popcorn is popped or opened.

Exposure to vapors from butter flavoring in microwave popcorn has been linked to a rare lung disease contracted by factory workers in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has said it suspects the chemical diacetyl caused the illnesses....
Tilt
5:33:37 PM
3/11/04

Did anyone interview Orville about this?
must hike
5:35:58 PM
3/11/04

Yeah.... Orville is dead as a hammer, isn't he....?

How poisonous does it have to be before Bush's EPA looks into it????

I'm skeert now!


LOL
Tilt
5:46:57 PM
3/11/04

"Exposure to vapors from butter flavoring in microwave popcorn has been linked to a rare lung disease"

mmmmmm lungbutter
StormBringer
5:50:45 PM
3/11/04

Okay... now I'm going to have to puke! LOL
Tilt
5:55:48 PM
3/11/04

Huh.... Hey, don't hog the popcorn!
BoneCrusher
6:06:04 PM
3/11/04

cool, i just ate a bag today
ScorchFire
6:07:58 PM
3/11/04

I know what I am buying my boss for his birthday this year...
birch
8:46:54 PM
3/11/04

Oh #&%!$! I eat a bag of that stuff a day. If my intestines don't fail me now my lungs will. I'm gonna have to get off the popcorn.
Sassafras
10:12:27 PM
3/11/04

Just don't inhale that steam that comes out when you open the bag....
Tilt
10:35:47 PM
3/11/04

Yikes! No more sniffing popcorn. I'll just have to stick to the glue pot.
nowslimmer
4:41:26 AM
3/12/04

My wife eats a bag of that stuff a day too.

I wonder if I can sue her for secondhand popcorn steam.
Violin
7:07:38 AM
3/12/04

Is it that difficult to make popcorn without a microwave, people?
treebait
7:21:47 AM
3/12/04

Pondering.......


Is that anything like when they opened King Tut's tomb??????
divinity
7:25:04 AM
3/12/04

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