What is the use of this HFCS Ketchup Mercury?
As if we haven’t had enough problems with our food lately with the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak. Now, two new studies find mercury – a metal that is toxic to humans – in nearly half of the samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) they tested. It was also in about a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverages where HFCS is the first or second highest ingredient listed on the label. One study – published in the journal, Environmental Health – shows mercury in nine out of 20 samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup. The second study – by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) – finds nearly one in three of 55 brand-name foods contained mercury, especially dairy products, dressings and condiments. The brands included big names like Quaker, Hershey’s, Kraft and Smucker’s.
