Twenty-nine more workers from the Jasper Popcorn Co. plant have filed a lawsuit claiming they suffered lung damage due to a butter flavoring used at the plant.
The suit filed in the Jasper County Circuit Court names as co-defendants the makers of butter flavoring used at the plant, International Flavors and Fragrances, and the company with which it merged in 2001, Bush Boake Allen, Givaudan Flavors, Aldrich Chemical Co. and Sigma-Aldrich.
International Flavors and Fragrances and Bush Boake Allen were defendants in prior lawsuits brought by 43 other workers at the plant, 30 of which have been either adjudicated or settled.
The popcorn lawsuits allege that exposure to the flavoring caused a rare progressive lung disease, known as bronchiolitis obliterans.
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