Comments on: Popcorn Dangers http://www.joshperez.com/whats-left/wellness/popcorn-workers/ Promoting The Leading Fitness Industry Resources and Services Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:44:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ken Bickerton, CIH, CSP http://www.joshperez.com/whats-left/wellness/popcorn-workers/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Ken Bickerton, CIH, CSP Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:13:48 +0000 http://www.joshperez.com/blog/fitness-news-and-videos/popcorn-workers/#comment-357 Do not equate workplace exposures to consumer exposures. They are vastly different in both the concentration of airborne Diacetyl and the time and frequency of exposure. Go back to the familiar phrase, "Dose makes the poison," to gain some prospective in this issue. Workers that have contracted "Popcorn Lung" are typically exposed on a daily basis to high concentrations of the butter flavor chemicals for 6 to 8 hours per day. Consumers are typically exposed a couple of times a week/month to low concentrations of the butter flavor chemicals for a few seconds per exposure. Did you know that Diacetyl naturally occurs in butter, and the employees of butter manufacturers are not know to contract "Popcorn Lung"? The same with beer and breweries? Let's keep things in perspective. Do not equate workplace exposures to consumer exposures. They are vastly different in both the concentration of airborne Diacetyl and the time and frequency of exposure. Go back to the familiar phrase, “Dose makes the poison,” to gain some prospective in this issue.

Workers that have contracted “Popcorn Lung” are typically exposed on a daily basis to high concentrations of the butter flavor chemicals for 6 to 8 hours per day. Consumers are typically exposed a couple of times a week/month to low concentrations of the butter flavor chemicals for a few seconds per exposure.

Did you know that Diacetyl naturally occurs in butter, and the employees of butter manufacturers are not know to contract “Popcorn Lung”? The same with beer and breweries?

Let’s keep things in perspective.

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