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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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Up until recently, (thanks to a lot of hard work by some folks) the real danger of margarine has been the trans fats. The flavor has gotten much better in the last few years. (At least Smart Balance tastes similar to regular American butter.) I've never used margarine myself ... but then I think salted butter is worth avoiding and I don't even have a sophisticated palate.
And I'm quite sure that you didn't throw the tubs away. Recycled, surely!
;-)
Yup to all that trans-fat danger...
I was quite distressed to find out recently that something MUST have a neck to be placed in the recycling container. No exceptions. I was going to the trouble of buying lettuce, tomatoes and fruit in #1 containers -- and my recycling has probably been going to the trash instead.
I understand their problem -- how can they know if the container is a #1 or a #6/PS? they can't read everything they pick up. But I wish they'd flagged me months ago on it.
(I'm a Land O' Lakes unsalted butter girl, myself... )