Paul Saladino· MD
when someone is eating 50 grams or 72 grams as the average adolescent child does of high fructose corn syrup per day that adds up to a lot of mercury
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when someone is eating 50 grams or 72 grams as the average adolescent child does of high fructose corn syrup per day that adds up to a lot of mercury
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at least in 2009 when this Chlor Alkali procedure was used for high fructose corn syrup .005 to 0.570 micrograms were found per gram of high fructose corn syrup that's .005 to 0.57 parts per million
in the past part of the process of making high fructose corn syrup involves something called a Chlor Alkali procedure now the corn refiners Association of the United States claims that that's no longer in high practice but there is some good evidence that when it was in practice that led to significant amounts of mercury contamination in high fructose corn syrup