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Artificial Butter Flavor Linked To "Popcorn Lung" Respiratory Disease

Popcorn has got to be one of America's favorite snack foods. But it is now at the center of a national health controversy.

One of the chemicals used to make the artificial butter flavoring so commonly used in packaged popcorn has been linked to a respiratory disease called "popcorn lung" in hundreds of people.