How much Mercury does

LesWVa

High fructose corn syrup actually contain per say 100 grams?

allen griggs

What? There's mercury in high fructose corn sugar? What in the world?
I have suffered, suffered mightily from lead and mercury poisoning so I am interested.
Fortunately I eat very little, if any, corn sugar.

montanajoe

Please tell me the beginning of this story. [?][?][?]

nemesisenforcer

regular or synthetic?

Scottymac

Considering HFCS is made using Hyrochloric acid and lye who cares about a little Mercury.
After all it is profits to be concerned with not contamination of our food supply by over regulated capitalist.

Rocklobster

The important issue is whether it reduces engine knock.

LesWVa

quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
What? There's mercury in high fructose corn sugar? What in the world?
I have suffered, suffered mightily from lead and mercury poisoning so I am interested.
Fortunately I eat very little, if any, corn sugar.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19171026

11b6r

Using the highest of the levels found when they tested, that would be 57 micrograms in 100 grams of HFCS. A microgram is one millionth of a gram. So you would have 57/1000000th of a gram of mercury.

On the other samples, mercury level was not high enough to be detected. A scientist will not say "There is none in there"- they will say "There is not enough that our tests could find it".