Popcorn Trial Continues
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Jury selection is underway in Joplin for the trial that addresses the first of a series of claims brought by workers with a rare lung disease. The plaintiffs say their health problems stem from artificial butter vapors at the Gilster-Mary Lee Microwave Popcorn Plant in Jasper. 30 former workers at the Southwest Missouri plant are suing two makers of the butter flavoring for unspecified damages. The first plaintiff is eric peoples who`s awaiting a lung transplant. He worked at the plant for 17 months. Attorney`s say peoples is one of eight plant workers with a seveere and irreversible disease that makes it difficult to breathe.
Reported By: Jim Jackson
