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OMG -- How Safe Is Your Food?
Yes -- This means stop re-using the $^$#@! butter and margarine dishes!
Fatal Disease From Flavoring Raises Flags
A potentially fatal lung disease linked to chemicals used in food flavorings poses a growing health risk, according to government scientists who are questioning the food industry's willingness to protect its workers.
Bronchiolitis obliterans first emerged as a threat within the food industry in 2000, when the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health was called to a southwest Missouri popcorn plant to investigate lung illnesses among workers.
Investigators subsequently found the disease among popcorn workers throughout the Midwest. They linked it to diacetyl, a substance that is found naturally in many foods but which also is artificially produced and widely used as a less expensive way to enhance flavor or impart the taste of butter.
http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50253014&subject=health
Fatal Disease From Flavoring Raises Flags
A potentially fatal lung disease linked to chemicals used in food flavorings poses a growing health risk, according to government scientists who are questioning the food industry's willingness to protect its workers.
Bronchiolitis obliterans first emerged as a threat within the food industry in 2000, when the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health was called to a southwest Missouri popcorn plant to investigate lung illnesses among workers.
Investigators subsequently found the disease among popcorn workers throughout the Midwest. They linked it to diacetyl, a substance that is found naturally in many foods but which also is artificially produced and widely used as a less expensive way to enhance flavor or impart the taste of butter.
http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50253014&subject=health
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Yes, I came to this conclusion years ago when I first lived alone. I tried using margarine melting in a pan to saute something, and it spattered in a "wrong" fashion and took on an odor that unnerved me. I stopped eating margarine for a long time. Tried again when Promise came out, but finally said "screw it" and returned to butter and olive oil.
We know something is damaging children being born in the USA. (I make this sweeping statement because I know a LOT of parents who didn't use drugs or anything, and have had children born with slight birth defects or seriously ADD. And I know way too many people with auto immune diseases/conditions.) Wouldn't it be interesting if it were margarine?
As a friend says, "What will be our lead in the wine?" Lately she's been saying, "What is our lead in the wine?"