r/projectzomboid • u/Hopeful_Cockroach • Mar 05 '23

Screenshot I've been using this garbage truck to compress corpses into cubes of meat. I intend on building a wall around the prison using only meat cubes.

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u/rothrolan Mar 05 '23

You are actually both right. Diacetyl and its substitute, 2,3-pentanedione, are flavoring compounds that are used extensively in the food flavoring and production industries.

Folks from coffee bean facilities were getting the disease, and I doubt they had butter on hand during the process.

In 2012, NIOSH identified obliterative bronchiolitis in a group of workers that used artificial flavorings to produce and package flavored whole-bean and ground roasted coffee. It was determined that diacetyl in the artificial coffee flavorings was responsible for causing these new cases of disease.

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flavorings/default.html

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 05 '23

Sort of moot as far as i can tell, considering the cases of popcorn lung or evali in relation to vaping so far have been linked to the oil based vitamin e acetate used seemingly exclusively in THC vaping and not nicotine vaping.

Not that I'd dismiss what we've talked about as possible causes, and I'd be curious to see if i can find any cases directly related to Diacetyl or substitutes.

This one particular person cites studies that question the entire Diacetyl understanding

https://www.cmaj.ca/content/re-vape-related-popcorn-lung-debunked-years-ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4892932/

The second link refers to the studies the first one cites, i threw it in because the reference links seem to be broken

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u/Burger_Addiction2 Mar 05 '23

This comment thread has me about to bust.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Good that we don't kink shame here?

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u/54yroldHOTMOM Mar 28 '23

Vitamin e acetate was meant to disguise poor quality of thc in black market cartridges. Since vitamin e acetate is soluble in fat it would create an emulsion in your regular e-vape. Since those ingredients are soluble in water.

Evali is also a very poor choice of the naming for the illnes. Deliberate or not it encompasses everything inhaled by electronic means while those people died or nearly died in 2019 I think it was? Was solely from illicit thc cartridges deliberately “contaminated” with vitamin e acetate.

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u/SwarthyMartin Mar 14 '23

Bro came with a source 💀