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Corn Syrup Contains Mercury: Must See Video For Moms!
“Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.”~ Washington Post. 
Mercury causes brain damage. I kind of figured somebody was saying something bad about corn syrup since all those adds saying how it was good for you and natural popped up. The FDA is a joke, and to prove it to yourself, here’s an experiment you can do at home:
“”Even at low levels methylmercury can harm the developing brain. The last thing we should intentionally do is add to it,” Wallinga added, in an MSNBC article also covering the story. I think we’ve seen the gutting of the FDA under the Bush administration, and we’re suffering the consequences. We should not be worrying about poison in our soda, salmonella in our tomatoes and spinach, and hormones in our milk.
Our way of creating, and safeguarding our food supply is changing dramatically day by day. Companies like Monsanto are now patenting living organisms, like the corn they are being forced to grow in Iraq. Monsanto, also an Obama supporter, has been destroying farmers around the world with their mutant GMO seed. Did you realize that you’ve probably already eaten Gentically modified food? Did you know they’re pushing hard just to get labels on beef from a GMO cow? I’ve got a container of organic milk in the fridge bragging right on the front label how there’s no cloned cow milk in it!
There is a lot to look into. But we all have a responsibility to ourselves, and our families to get involved in this issue. New laws are being written that hurt our agriculture, not help it. You can do something about it! Get in contact with your local representatives. I know we’re about to start knowing these guys on a first name basis, we have to contact them about so much stuff, but that’s what they’re there for!
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Audrae Erickson
June 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm
No mercury or mercury-based technology is used in the production of high fructose corn syrup in North America.
The American public can rest assured that high fructose corn syrup is safe. Safety is the highest priority for our industry, which is why we immediately commissioned external testing as well as independent expert review of claims concerning mercury and our corn sweetener.
Woodhall Stopford, MD, MSPH, of Duke University Medical Center, one of the nation’s leading experts in mercury contamination, reviewed the results of total mercury testing of samples of high fructose corn syrup conducted by Eurofins Central Analytical Laboratory (Metairie, LA) in February and March 2009. Dr. Stopford concluded:
• No quantifiable mercury was detected in any of the samples analyzed.
• High fructose corn syrup does not appear to be a measureable contributor to mercury in foods.
Consumers can see the latest research and learn more about high fructose corn syrup at http://www.SweetSurprise.com.
Audrae Erickson
President
Corn Refiners Association
jenime
June 9, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Check out the study funded by the people who are selling you the mercury, but then I can recommend many more articles refuting their claims of safety: http://www.grist.org/article/Some-heavy-metal-with-that-sweet-roll-/
“Turns out that HFCS is commonly tainted with mercury—a highly toxic substance—according to a peer-reviewed report published by Environmental Health (abstract here; PDF of the must-read full text here.)
The Environmental Health study draws on samples of high-fructose corn syrup taken straight from the factory. But no one drinks the stuff straight. What about, say, cookies sweetened with HFCS? The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy plucked HFCS-containing products from supermarket shelves and tested them for mercury. The result?
Overall, we found detectable mercury in 17 of 55 samples, or around 31 percent
Traces of mercury turned up in name-brand products from makers including Quaker, Hunt’s, Manwich, Hershey’s, Smucker’s, Kraft, Nutri-Grain, and Yoplait.
That a ubiquitous industrial-food ingredient such as HFCS should be tainted by mercury is bad enough. But it gets worse. The FDA has apparently known about this since 2005—and done nothing to publicize it or change it.
In 2005, EH study lead author Renee Dufault was an FDA researcher. At that time, she conducted the tests now cited in the EH report. Her results found mercury in 9 of 20 HFCS samples—45 percent.
She doesn’t comment on why, but the FDA apparently did nothing with her results in the years since they emerged. She retired from the agency in March 2008—and evidently decided to go public. She deserves praise for the decision to publish her work—essentially blowing the whistle on what looks like an egregious attempt to hide key information from the public.”
Here’s an article from ’09, just in case this isn’t recent enough for you Audrae: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/01/28/mercury-found-in-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html
Please folks, google it for yourselves. Just don’t tell me to take the word of the salesman. The REAL POINT though, is not that we should hate farmers, but the greedy buisnessmen and women who value profit over safety. The FDA is a joke, and we need to push for reform for all of our health’s sakes. Please believe me, folks, I’m not the one being paid to write this. Audrae Erickson, however she may try to spin it, bottom line, is.
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