The title pretty much says it all.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28877253/
I thought that the comments made by Wallinga are rediculous. No, people don't eat pure high fructose corn syrup, but it is used in a sweetner in everything from soft drinks to cereal (eat up kids!)
So apparently, in the most technologically advanced and regulated society of modern times, the high fructose corn syrup producers of America have discovered this problem and fixed it sometime after 2005. So does this mean that if you have drank soft drinks or eaten cereal, etc. before this date you have taken in unsafe levels of mercury? Well, it looks like I'm going to be enjoying the various side-effects that come along with high mercury intake.
Erethism (nervousness, irritability, mood instability, blushing)
Tremor
Personality change
Suicidal tendency
Paraesthesia
Impaired hearing
Speech disorders
Visual disturbance
Abnormal reflexes
Disturbed gait
Gingivitis (inflammation of the gums)
Impaired nerve conduction
Renal damage
Adverse outcome of pregnancy
Infertility
Pneumonitis (lung disease)
Glioblastoma (brain cancer)
Immune system dysfunction
Gastroenteritis (stomach upset)
Mouth pain
Abdominal pain
Vomiting
Excessive salivation
Anuria (urine production stops)
Uraemia (urine products appearing in the blood)
Nephritis (kidney disease leading to kidney failure)
Anorexia (lack of appetite)
Ataxia (difficulty in moving)
http://www.mercurysafety.co.uk/hlthinfo.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28877253/
In one study, published in the journal Environmental Health, former Food and Drug Administration scientist Renee Dufault and colleagues tested 20 samples of high fructose corn syrup and found detectable mercury in nine of the 20 samples.
Dr. David Wallinga, a food safety researcher and activist at the nonprofit Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, said he followed up on the report to find mercury in actual food.
"When I learned of that work, I said that is interesting but we don't just go out and eat a spoonful of high fructose corn syrup," Wallinga said in a telephone interview.
"Our industry has used mercury-free versions of the two reagents mentioned in the study, hydrochloric acid and caustic soda, for several years," Audrae Erickson, president of the Corn Refiners Association, said in a statement.
Wallinga said the studies were based on samples taken in 2005, the most recent available.
I thought that the comments made by Wallinga are rediculous. No, people don't eat pure high fructose corn syrup, but it is used in a sweetner in everything from soft drinks to cereal (eat up kids!)
So apparently, in the most technologically advanced and regulated society of modern times, the high fructose corn syrup producers of America have discovered this problem and fixed it sometime after 2005. So does this mean that if you have drank soft drinks or eaten cereal, etc. before this date you have taken in unsafe levels of mercury? Well, it looks like I'm going to be enjoying the various side-effects that come along with high mercury intake.
Erethism (nervousness, irritability, mood instability, blushing)
Tremor
Personality change
Suicidal tendency
Paraesthesia
Impaired hearing
Speech disorders
Visual disturbance
Abnormal reflexes
Disturbed gait
Gingivitis (inflammation of the gums)
Impaired nerve conduction
Renal damage
Adverse outcome of pregnancy
Infertility
Pneumonitis (lung disease)
Glioblastoma (brain cancer)
Immune system dysfunction
Gastroenteritis (stomach upset)
Mouth pain
Abdominal pain
Vomiting
Excessive salivation
Anuria (urine production stops)
Uraemia (urine products appearing in the blood)
Nephritis (kidney disease leading to kidney failure)
Anorexia (lack of appetite)
Ataxia (difficulty in moving)
http://www.mercurysafety.co.uk/hlthinfo.htm