The MIHS Best Paper Award for 2005 was given this year to a group of NIOSH authors for their paper entitled, Characterization of Respiratory Exposures at a Microwave Popcorn Plant with Cases of Bronchiolitis Obliterans that was published in the March 2005 edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health (Volume 2, Number 3 / March 2005). Greg Kullman was present in Chicago at the AIHA annual business meeting on May 18, 2006 to accept the award for himself and his co-authors: Randy Boylstein, William Jones, Chris Piacitelli, Stephanie Pendergrass, and Kathleen Kreiss. MIHS congratulates all of these individuals for their fine work.
The paper was selected on the basis of outstanding elements including its importance to the field of industrial hygiene, adding to the IH knowledge base, originality, good scientific method and use of data as well as overall quality of presentation.

The authors have put this study to good use, publishing a number of other documents on the topic including a Dec 2003 NIOSH Alert entitled "Preventing Lung Diseases in Workers Who Use or Make Flavorings."