mercury found in many name brand food products

XHonusWagnerX - 2-13-2009 at 08:25 AM

http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=105026

Hershey's Chocolate Syrup’s laced with mercury
Scientists tested 55 common consumer products that use high fructose corn syrup — and found mercury in 17 of them!
Wed, Jan 28 2009 at 1:47 PM EST
Read more: FOOD SAFETY, HEALTH

No, high fructose corn syrup’s still not good for you, no matter what the Corn Refiners’ ads say. In fact, those ads really sound ridiculous now that it’s not just obesity and diabetes we’re talking about. A group of scientists at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy tested 55 common consumer products that use high fructose corn syrup — and found mercury in 17 of them! (via Ethicurean)

The reason: High fructose corn syrup’s made using caustic soda, some of which is made at plants that also make chlorine using a process involving mercury. That mercury can get into the chlorine and the caustic soda, and thereby, the high fructose corn syrup. That mercury-laced high fructose syrup then gets put into your popular everyday supermarket product! Here are the 14 products that tested positive for mercury:

Product Name - Total Mercury - Limit of Detection (ppt)

Quaker Oatmeal to Go 350 80
Jack Daniel’s Barbecue Sauce (Heinz) 300 100
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup 257 50
Kraft Original Barbecue Sauce 200 100
Nutri-Grain Strawberry Cereal Bars 180 80
Manwich Bold Sloppy Joe 150 80
Market Pantry Grape Jelly 130 80
Smucker’s Strawberry Jelly 100 80
Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry 100 80
Hunt’s Tomato Ketchup 87 50
Wish-Bone Western Sweet & Smooth Dressing 72 50
Coca-Cola Classic 62 50
Yoplait Strawberry Yogurt 60 20
Minute Maid Berry Punch 40 30
Yoo-hoo Chocolate Drink 30 20
Nesquik Chocolate Milk 30 20
Kemps Fat Free Chocolate Milk 30 20

clevohardcore - 2-13-2009 at 08:47 AM

WHAT THE FUCK?

Dave - 2-13-2009 at 09:01 AM

Coca-Cola Classic 62 50

is the only one i consume from the list.....

panzerkreuzer - 2-13-2009 at 10:24 AM

there is a Jack Daniel’s Barbecue Sauce? how does it taste ?

Enyo - 2-13-2009 at 11:12 AM

Pop-Tarts Frosted Blueberry 100 80

Dang it.

That is fucked up, but luckily I only eat these once every 6 months or so.

MyOwnWay - 2-13-2009 at 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by panzerkreuzer
there is a Jack Daniel’s Barbecue Sauce? how does it taste ?

Not a big fan. I highly reccomend Bulls-Eye BBQ Sauce made with Guinness.

Mmmm!

Dan - 2-13-2009 at 01:39 PM

Not worried about this.

The worst items on that list are the two barbecue sauces at 100 parts per trillion, which is one twentieth of the limit that the EPA has set as a safe mercury content level for drinking water (2 parts per billion). Consider how much drinking water you consume versus how much barbecue sauce you consume.

I'm more concerned with the CFL light bulbs that everybody is being pushed to use. You break one of those and you have a hazmat situation in your house. Check out the instructions from the EPA regarding what to do if you break a CFL: http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/#fluorescent

moron - 2-13-2009 at 01:47 PM

I wonder how much mercury is ingested at a Bad Luck 13 show.

Six66Mike - 2-13-2009 at 10:03 PM

Fluoro lights is a good call, Australia is actually BANNING incandescent lighting and forcing fluoro's on people, with no plan whatsoever to dispose of them when they are done. There's some recycle plants thinnly spread but no real plan for millions of homes to throw these things out aside from the normal trash. Then the mercury will just leech into the ground and cause all sorts of hell.

clevohardcore - 2-15-2009 at 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by panzerkreuzer
there is a Jack Daniel’s Barbecue Sauce? how does it taste ?

^^^^^^^^^^^ Its good but very sugary and thick. Like KC MASTERPIECE in a way.