Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup, courtesy of toledoen

Because it's sooooo tasty!

http://www.iatp.org/iatp/publications.cfm?accountID=421&refID=105040

pdf of the foods that tested positive for mercury and for how much

Product Name
Total mercury detected (ppt)
Laboratory detection limit (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
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
Hy‐Top Syrup
ND
50
Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red
ND
50
NOS High Performance Energy Drink
ND
50
A & W Root Beet
ND
30
Dr. Pepper
ND
30
Wyler's Italian Ices
ND
30
Market Pantry Ice Pops
ND
30
Kool‐Aid Bursts Tropical Punch
ND
30
Kool‐Aid Cherry Jammers
ND
30
Sunny‐D
ND
30
Snapple Peach Iced Tea
ND
30
Powerade Orange
ND
30
Lipton Green Tea
ND
30
Zoo Juice Orange
ND
30
Tropicana Twister Cherry Berry Blast
ND
30
Fanta Orange
ND
30
Pepsi
ND
30
7‐Up
ND
30
Hi‐C Wild Cherry
ND
30
Jell‐O Strawberry
ND
100
Market Pantry Applesauce
ND
100
Mott's Applesauce
ND
100
Campbell's Tomato Soup
ND
100
Aunt Jemima Original Syrup
ND
100
Hershey's Caramel Syrup
ND
100
Hershey's Strawberry Syrup
ND
100
Market Pantry Thousand Island
ND
100
Smucker’s Strawberry Syrup
ND
100
Heinz Hotdog Relish
ND
100
Market Pantry Cranberry Sauce
ND
100
Market Pantry Tomato Soup
ND
100
Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce
ND
100
Mrs. Butterworth Original Syrup
ND
100
Heinz Tomato Ketchup
ND
100
Wish‐Bone Thousand Island Dressing
ND
100
Welch's Grape Jelly
ND
100
Nesquik Strawberry Milk
ND
20
Land O’ Lakes Chocolate Milk
ND
20

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I shop on the "healthy" side (organic/local/non-processed), but we do have two products from the above list in the pantry: Campbells Tomato Soup and Heinz Ketchup. Time to find organic alternatives.

The Hawaiian Punch in my fridge just went down the drain. Thanks.

I tend to buy a lot of store-brand (generic) items. What are the chances that my Kroger brand ketchup is tainted similarly to the Heinz and Hunt's ketchups? Probably better than 50-50.

100% if it has high fructose corn syrup. looks like thats out of my diet for good

I have been eating foods with corn syrup for 70 years. I don't plan to change now. We were brought up with many things that you find objectable and it did not hurt us.

haha. good attitude!

Although I have no basis to support or refute the data, it's important to know that this is not a 'news story', but rather a press release from IATP that was picked up by Washington Post. IATP is a lobbying group, so weigh the content as you would a press release from the NRA, NOW or Billy Mays.

"Mercury in High Fructose Corn Syrup, courtesy of toledoen"

When I first read the subject line of this thread I laughed because it sounds like Toledoen is contaminating high fructose corn syrup with mercury.

I AM !

*runs around in circles, wildly, like a mad hatter, in your kitchen

things that everyone, nonsmokers included, expires when they breath.
Now this should make the propagandists shudder in their tassled
loafers. Scary!

Normal Composite Compositional Profile of Human Expired Air
Acetone
Isoprene
Acetonitrile
pTolualdehyde
Toluene
P,SDimethylhexane
Ethyl Alcohol
Acetaldehyde
Dichloronitromethan e
2,2,4-Trimethyl- l-pentanol
n-Propyl acetate
2,2-Dimethyl- l-pentanol
Cyclohexane
Hexane
Thiolacetic acid
I-Heptanol
Cyclohexyl alcohol
Benzene
2-Ethyl-l-hexanone
2,3,5 Trimethylhexane
Ethyl Imercaptopropionate
Cycloheptatriene
p-Xylene
n-Butyl alcohol
3,4 Dimethylhexane
Limonene
Isooctyl alcohol
Methyl-n-propyl sulfide.
2 - Ethyl-4-methyl- 1-pentanol
Neopentyl acetate
Trans4nonenal
n-Heptane
Ethylbenzene
5-Methyl4heptanone
Dimethylsulfide
P-Methyl-l-pentanol
pl)ichlorobenzene
Trans-3-hexen- l-ol
Capryl alcohol
Mesitylene
n-Hexylmercaptan
3,4-Dimethylheptane
2,3,3,4-Tetramethyl pentane
1Chlorohexane
Dichloroacetylene
2,P-Dimethyl- l-octanol
2,2,3,3 - Tetramethylhexane
o-Xylene
2,3,3 - Trimethylhexane
Isopropylalcohol
2,2-Dimethyl- l-hexanol
5-Ethyl-l-butanol
Z,P-Dimethylheptane
Furan
Naphthalene
Thiocyclopentane
Cyclopentylalcohol
n-l\lonane
Ethyl phenyl acetate
n-Amyl alcohol
Z,CDimethylheptane
5-Nitropropane
2,6 - Di-tert-butyl- 4-methyl- phenol
Methyl-tert- butyl-ketone
Di-Tert-butyldisulf ide
2,2-Dimethyl- Shexanone
1,2-Diethylbenzene
2,5-Dimethylheptane
2-Methyl-3-heptanon e
Isobutyl alcohol
m-Xylene
2,2,5,5Tetramethylh exane
n-Decanal
SMethyl-2-butanol
Propiophenone
Ethylacetate
n-Decane
Isopropylbenzene
IEthylpentane
Di-n-Butylamine
N-Dodecane
o-Dichlorobenzene
Allylacetate
S,SDiethylpentane
n-Butyl acetoacetate
Benzylamine
Indene
Methylnaphthalene
'L-Methyl-Spentanon e
Coumarin
Phenylacetic acid
Ethyl valerate
5-Methyl-3-heptanon e
n-Octane
Cumic alcohol
Methanol
2,4-Dimethyl- Shexanone
Octylacetate
Cycloheptadiene
2-Methyl-1-octene
. Ethyl Lmethylvalerate
o-Nitrotoluene

More on this...

http://www.gourmet.com/foodpolitics/2009/01/politics-of-the-plate-mercury-in-corn-syrup

deere1: I doubt that, hfcs was not widely introduced to our food until the late 70s.

Good post again Tole3dolen! It's interesting that EPA knew about this for four years and didn't make a peep.
Add to that what we get on inhalation from coal burning, the amount that's in childhood vaccinations too. Babies and children are much more susceptible to terrible effects from mercury poisoning than adults at the same dose. Government simply must start regulating polluters instead of taking their money at election time and letting them kill us.