Microwave Popcorn Linked to Disease
By MARCUS KABEL,
AP
Posted: 2007-09-05 11:34:33
Filed Under: Health News
(Sept. 4) - 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.

"We cannot be sure that this patient's exposure to butter flavored
microwave popcorn from daily heavy preparation has caused his lung
disease," cautioned Dr. Cecile Rose. "However, we have no other
plausible explanation."

So, who cares. Most of us don't mw that much in a lifetime.