Man awarded ₹226 crore as cooking spray leaves him with rare lungs disease in US

A US man has been awarded $25 million (₹226 crore) after developing a lung condition that he claims was caused by a cooking spray. The product was PAM cooking spray which earlier contained diacetyl chemical. In 2022, he filed lawsuit claiming that the exposure caused him to develop bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare lung disease commonly known as popcorn lung.