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Title: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lil Me on Sep 04 07 09:55
[span class="lingo_region"]Consumers, not just factory workers, may be in danger from fumes from buttery flavoring in microwave popcorn, according to a warning letter to [a href="vny!://get.lingospot.com/f?url=vny!%3A//www.breitbart.com/detail.php%3FsearchText%3D%22federal+regulators%22%26searchChannel%3DFTimes&eid=csl&tid=91298843c&site=breitbart.com&menu=FTimes" style="text-decoration: underline; color: black;"]federal regulators[/a] from a doctor at a leading lung research hospital.  A pulmonary spetgwpdt at Denver's [a href="vny!://get.lingospot.com/f?url=vny!%3A//search.breitbart.com/q%3Fs%3D%22National+Jewish%20Medical%22%26sid%3Dbreitbart.com&eid=csl&tid=1e6a74b4b&site=breitbart.com" style="text-decoration: underline; color: black;"]National Jewish Medical[/a] 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.
 [/p] Full Story:  [a href="vny!://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-09-04_D8RF1TR80&show_article=1&cat=breaking"]vny!://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2007-09-04_D8RF1TR80&show_article=1&cat=breaking[/a]
 [/p] [/span]  
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: P.C. on Sep 04 07 11:07
I remember several years ago, there was a concern about microwave popcorn causing eye problems and possible blindness.  I couldn't make the connection.  I had heard it was from the steam when you opened the popped corn......so I assumed it was like a burn on the tender tissure of the eye, from the steam.  I thought it was a bunch of bunk, until I had started to develop a cloudy vision problem.  It was like looking through a heavy plastic bag.

As it turned out, it was from one of the ingredients in the popping oil.  They corrected that problem.....and now this.
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lise on Sep 05 07 09:32
I've heard about this a while ago. You have to wonder about the people working in the theatres, whether they're at risk for the same thing.
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: P.C. on Sep 05 07 09:44
I think they are referring specifically to microwave popcorn.  I would imagine there has to be some ingredient in there to prevent it from burning in microwave conditions.
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lil Me on Sep 05 07 03:47
Yikes.  Microwave popcorn sounds menacing now.  
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Ace on Sep 05 07 04:01
If the fumes are enough to cause damage, is it even safe to eat?  
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lil Me on Sep 05 07 04:03
(//vny!://www.nmafaculty.org/images/pepto_large.jpg).  
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Ace on Sep 05 07 04:16
Remember the Pepto-Bismol commercial with the 1980's rappers/breakdancers?  What the hell were they thinking?  
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: P.C. on Sep 05 07 04:18
rofl  Oh gawd those were embarrassing.
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lil Me on Sep 05 07 04:20
Who hasn't done a "bathroom dance" before?  (but not necessarily breakdancing...)
 
 Personally, I find the Immodium commercials hilarious.
 The one in the hot tub" Hey Bob, you still suffering from diaharrea?"
   
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: P.C. on Sep 05 07 04:24
hahahaa....that WAS a good one.

  (I refer to that dance as the peepee dance, but it bears no resemblance to breakdancing.  I think that would finish it.)
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lil Me on Sep 05 07 04:25
I couldn't imagine breakdancing with a full bladder (or colon).  That would be a recipe for disaster.  
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: P.C. on Sep 05 07 04:27
I couldn't imagine breakdancing.
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Ace on Sep 05 07 04:29
I found that commercial...

[a href="vny!://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAr73vmhP40"]vny!://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAr73vmhP40[/a]

 
Title: Re: Beware the Popcorn Fumes!
Post by: Lil Me on Sep 05 07 04:32
Good work, Ace!