Blue Herald
05
Sep
You May Want to Rethink Microwave Popcorn
by QuestionGirl • 10:46 am

Real popcorn, brown paper lunchbag, microwave. Cheaper, safer, tastes better. Who eats microwave popcorn, or any popcorn for that matter, several times a day??? Nice diet!

Consumers, not just factory workers, may be in danger from fumes from buttery flavoring in microwave popcorn, according to a warning letter to federal regulators from a doctor at a leading lung research hospital.

A pulmonary specialist at Denver’s National Jewish Medical and Research Center has written to federal agencies to say doctors there believe they have the first case of a consumer who developed lung disease from the fumes of microwaving popcorn several times a day for years.

More at the AP



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