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Great. As if the stuff isn't bad enough to begin with, there are detectable amounts of mercury in about 30% of grocery store products containing high-fructose corn syrup.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/26/132619/467
The bad news is that nobody knows whether or not their soda or snack food contains HFCS made from ingredients like caustic soda contaminated with mercury. The good news is that mercury-free HFCS ingredients exist. Food companies just need a good push to only use those ingredients
Right, because it would be so crazy to just STOP USING HFCS ALREADY.
I don't even want to get into the part where the FDA did a similar study in 2005, with similar results, and did nothing about it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601831.html
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/1/26/132619/467
The bad news is that nobody knows whether or not their soda or snack food contains HFCS made from ingredients like caustic soda contaminated with mercury. The good news is that mercury-free HFCS ingredients exist. Food companies just need a good push to only use those ingredients
Right, because it would be so crazy to just STOP USING HFCS ALREADY.
I don't even want to get into the part where the FDA did a similar study in 2005, with similar results, and did nothing about it.
