Conagra Must Pay $25M To Calif. Man Who Says Cooking Spray Ruined Lungs
At issue was the use of diacetyl as a butter flavoring in Pam spray. Conagra, which says it removed the ingredient from its Pam formulation in 2009, will challenge the ruling.
A jury awarded a Los Angeles man $25 million in a lawsuit against Chicago-based Conagra alleging its butter-flavored Pam cooking spray caused a rare chronic lung disease that will require a double lung transplant. (Channick, 2/11)
In other health news from across the U.S. 鈥
Colorado marijuana manufacturers would no longer be allowed to choose which product samples they send for mandatory lab testing under a new regulatory proposal discussed at a policy forum on Friday. Instead, the state鈥檚 Marijuana Enforcement Division may require independent labs or outside vendors to collect product samples for the testing that鈥檚 required before companies can sell their products to ensure they鈥檙e free of contaminants. (Osher and Wyloge, 2/11)
North Carolina鈥檚 three state-run psychiatric hospitals 鈥 Cherry, Central Regional and Broughton 鈥 serve about 570 patients each day. But hundreds more who need inpatient treatment wait weeks 鈥 even months 鈥 for a bed to open. (Crumpler and Knopf, 2/12)
In the summer of 2022, months after Tammy Boarman and her husband, Chris, moved into their newly built 鈥渇orever home鈥 30 miles from Oklahoma City, the plants in their yard began to turn yellow. The shrubs wilted, though Tammy watered them often. And the couple began to notice a salty taste in their drinking water. The water came from a private well, drilled the year before, and they hoped that the bad taste would fade with time and with the help of a water softener. (Bowlin, 2/12)
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Louisville Found PFAS In Drinking Water. The Trump Administration Wouldn鈥檛 Require Any Action
Every day, the Ohio River sends billions of gallons of water flowing past Louisville鈥檚 pumping station, where the Kentucky city鈥檚 utility sucks it up to turn it into tap water. To ensure it tastes good and is safe to drink, a small team of scientists and technicians is constantly testing the water for pH, odors, heavy metals, and microbes. But unlike many smaller municipal utilities in the U.S., Louisville Water regularly checks for PFAS 鈥 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. (Watkins, 2/12)
On social media and mental health 鈥
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday sued the company that owns Snapchat, accusing the social media organization of failing to adequately warn parents about inappropriate material on the platform and downplaying its addictiveness. (Simpson, 2/11)
Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta鈥檚 Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms. The question of addiction is a key pillar of the case, where plaintiffs seek to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Meta Platforms and Google鈥檚 YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap have settled. (Huamani and Ortutay, 2/12)
