Flavoring-Related Lung Disease: Information for Healthcare Providers

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  "Severe obstructive lung disease has been identified in people who work with flavoring chemicals containing diacetyl, including butter flavoring. Cases of severe lung disease have occurred in microwave popcorn plants and flavoring production plants. Lung biopsies in some affected people have shown the presence of a rare condition; constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans (also referred to as constrictive bronchiolitis, obliterative bronchiolitis, and bronchiolitis obliterans). In some workers, fixed airways obstruction has been severe enough to be fatal."
  
  CDC-INFO Pub ID 221274
  
  
• Content Notes:
  221274
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 11-12).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational/toxicity Diacetyl Lung Diseases/chemically Induced Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure/adverse Effects
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  print; folded sheet ([6] p.) : ill. ; 22 x 10 cm.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040973
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b77e0754c589b67355cfba5ba4db4ccfdc21b3f69c6d5e3d6528642fe392e15f4a7fe1d9b229251a0a6aa6518cbd6d99661d1a20105157cc28db5638245cf162
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/11910/cdc_11910_DS1.pdf
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