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From the paper, the highest recorded concentration was 0.570?g/g (570 ppm)
The paper also identifies the average daily consumption of HFCS - about 50g/day - or around 200 kcal.
Using maths, 0.570?g/g * 50g/day = 10.41mg/yr
The EPA's standard 2ppb
The average american is implored to consume around 2 liters - 2 kg - of water a day
Using maths, 2 ppb * 2kg / day = 1.46mg/yr
Carnivorous fish have around the same mercury concentration
Moral of the story: avoid HFCS with the same gusto you'd avoid tuna or salmon - 5g / day is probably the most you should be consuming, on average - but the fact is, it'll kill you with fatass before it kills you with mercury - and sucrose (cane sugar) will do quite the same thing. Sugar intake is bad in excess. Fructose intake is worse, sans fiber.
Meanwhile, this falls under, for me, the incompetence over malice rule. It's much more believable to me that mercury-containing reagents are cheaper than certified mercury-free reagents, therefore companies incompetent enough to cut that corner end up with high mercury in their product.


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Mercury Contamination Moves Beyond Fish

Groundbreaking Mercury Treaty Adopted By 140 Countries

fanaskin_sl said:

For
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
against
The latest Scare du Jour: mercury in HFCS


top reddit answer

Old news
From the paper, the highest recorded concentration was 0.570?g/g (570 ppm)
The paper also identifies the average daily consumption of HFCS - about 50g/day - or around 200 kcal.
Using maths, 0.570?g/g * 50g/day = 10.41mg/yr
The EPA's standard 2ppb
The average american is implored to consume around 2 liters - 2 kg - of water a day
Using maths, 2 ppb * 2kg / day = 1.46mg/yr
Carnivorous fish have around the same mercury concentration
Moral of the story: avoid HFCS with the same gusto you'd avoid tuna or salmon - 5g / day is probably the most you should be consuming, on average - but the fact is, it'll kill you with fatass before it kills you with mercury - and sucrose (cane sugar) will do quite the same thing. Sugar intake is bad in excess. Fructose intake is worse, sans fiber.
Meanwhile, this falls under, for me, the incompetence over malice rule. It's much more believable to me that mercury-containing reagents are cheaper than certified mercury-free reagents, therefore companies incompetent enough to cut that corner end up with high mercury in their product.


something to think about in relation to
Mercury Contamination Moves Beyond Fish

Groundbreaking Mercury Treaty Adopted By 140 Countries

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The first link here, the Washington Post link, claims all forms of mercury are toxic. This is not true, organic forms of mercury are far more stable and less reactive. The majority of the research conducted on organic mercurial compounds is related to methylmercury, which was the main compound in thiomerasol, the ingrediant in vaccines which people like Lumie and Jenny McCarthy were claiming caused autism in children.

Methylmercury breaks down into ethylmercury in the body when injected or ingested. Ethylmercury does not bioaccumulate like other forms of mercury do, in fact it leaves the body three times as fast as methylmercury on its own.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/2012/460508/

So, even though rates of autism diagnoses continue to climb despite the methylmercury compounds being removed as a precautionary measure back in 2003, people are still screaming vaccines are giving your baby HIV, and all types of mercury are bad, etc.

As you said, I would be far more worried about the literally 20 tablespoons of sugar you are consuming when you drink a soda. Sugar is correlated with pretty much every single major illness facing America today besides the ill effects of smoking. Type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc. are all good enough reasons to stay away from soda if you're health conscious that we don't need to be making up new ones like if you drink soda you'll die of mercury poisoning.

The primary concern with ingestion of organic mercuries is in pregnant women. If you are a pregnant woman, avoid eating too much fish and other products which may contain mercury agents. But people in general have lived on fish as a staple crop for thousands of years without dying or suffering negative side effects of mercury poisoning from it.

Also, no, fluoride in your water is not toxic. Sodium fluoride is a salt. Lumie, not knowing anything about chemistry, doesn't understand that the Na+ and F- ions disassociate in water, therefore he thinks when you put sodium fluoride in water, that you're drinking sodium fluoride, rather than Na+ ions and F- ions in H20 aqueous solution. Once again his lack of basic chemistry courses undoes his retardation.

Also, sodium fluoride isn't the only solution to adding fluoride to water, and 1.2ppm is the maximum dosage used in water and actually the standard is more like .7 ppm and that has been shown repeatedly for decades, through literally hundreds and thousands of peer reviewed papers to not be toxic.

The entire fluoridated water and vaccines controversies are the result of stupid people who don't understand science pretending they do, like former Playboy models who couldn't have gotten further from a research lab if they tried.

Luminati_sl said:

Lol so when you put sodium fluoride in water, you're not actually drinking it guys!

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When you put NaCl in water, Lumie, what happens to the Na+ and the Cl-?

Here I'll give you a hint:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(chemistry)

Here, I'll give you an even bigger hint



Just recall, everyone, that just a page or two ago, Lumie said he didn't need to be educated to understand chemistry.

When you put a poisonous compound in water it remains a poisonous compound.

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Lumie: What happens when you put NaCl in water?

Now take a look at the periodic table



Notice how F sits just above Cl in the table?

Might want to stop being so fucking stupid now.

Better watch out, Cyanide contains deadly Carbon and Nitrogen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide

So if you ingest carbon and nitrogen mixed together in water, you could die!

Oh shit there's an inorganic form that also incorporates Na! If you eat table salt you could die!

DEADLY POISONS EVERYWHERE!

Araysar_sl said:

But Nitrogen makes up 77% of the air we breathe!

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I KNOW ITS AMAZING WE AREN'T ALL DEAD ALREADY!