date:Aug 15, 2012
The ingredient has been used by many manufacturers of microwave popcorn after it was suggested that another butter flavouring known as diacetyl was linked to a life-threatening lung disease known asbronchiolitis obliteransin factory workers who inhaled the substance.
But now researchers from the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health part of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have suggested that exposure to 2,3-pentanedione (PD) could present comparabl