Blue candy is back
An all-natural coloring derived from seaweed has put blue back in one of the United Kingdom’s favorite candies – Smarties. – following their removal two years ago in response to concerns over...
View ArticleBlue candies update
World's largest food company eliminates questionable food coloring from Smarties and adds blue back to the box.
View ArticleSell more candy: Add caffeine
Jelly Bellys and chocolate-covered espresso beans are just some of the new, hyped up, high speed candy filling store shelves. Spiked with additives like caffeine and vitamins, the candy market is...
View ArticleNew study affirms diacetyl's harm
Public health investigators trying to determine the actual risk to workers and consumers exposed to vapors from the chemical butter flavoring diacetyl have some new information with which to work.
View ArticleMore information on diacetyl
More information on the chemiocal flavoring that can cause lung-destroy disease in workers exposed to it. The information data sheet has been issued in Spanish.
View ArticleChefs urge diacetyl investigation
The nation's largest organization for professional chefs today called for increased government investigations into the cause-and-effect relationship between the chemical butter flavoring diacetyl and...
View ArticleSpreading the word of diacetyl danger
As awareness of the health hazard from exposure to lung-destroying diacetyl spreads, government and food service industry safety officials worry over how to identify the presence of the controversial...
View ArticlePopcorn butter-flavoring and Parkinson'?
It's clearly documented that inhalation of diacetyl butter flavoring vapors can destroy lungs of popcorn plant workers and those in other industries involving flavoring agents. Well, What about...
View ArticlePopcorn eater has lungs destroyed
For the second time in this country, a popcorn eater claims his lungs were destroyed by the fumes from butter flavoring released when he microwaved several bags of popcorn each day. A suit was filed...
View ArticleStrong opinions over latest popcorn suit
Another popcorn loves says he had "popcorn lung" from the four to six bags he micro-waved and ate each night.
View ArticlePopcorn flavoring victims dies as jury awards $7.5 million, but government...
Ronald Kuiper died last week, just one day before a jury decided that a maker of chemical butter flavoring owed him $7.5 million for destruction of his lungs. Kuiper was 64 when I interviewed him five...
View ArticleNew DOL boss may really care about workers exposed to lung destroying...
Yesterday, the newly appointed Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, ordered the agency’s first definitive steps to prevent workers’ exposure to food flavorings chemicals containing diacetyl. It was Dec....
View ArticleDemocrats who anguished over dangerous popcorn butter flavoring are doing...
The chemical in butter flavoring for popcorn and other foods that has sickened hundreds of workers, killed a handful and destroyed the lungs of at least three microwave popcorn addicts may be back. In...
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