Probably because it’s the bacterium and fungi that produce the proteins which catalyze the process that are GM, not the actual materials that go into the product.

“1.) Isn’t it 0.57 micrograms per gram of HFCS?

2.) Is the average daily consumption of HFCS in the U.S. 50 grams per person as stated in Environmental Health online journal? http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/2

3) Does the EPA recommend that an average woman not consume more than 5.5 grams of mercury per day?

If yes to all of the above, wouldn’t that mean that a person could possibly be consuming 5 times the upper safety limits of mercury on a daily basis if they consume the foods tested in the study?”

No. It means they’d be consuming about 1/200 the safe dose from HFCS. .57 micrograms = .00057 grams mercury per gram HFCS.

.00057*50 = .0285 grams, or 28.5 micrograms. You’re conflating grams and micrograms in your calculation.

And that’s using the high end of HFCS products containing mercury. The low end was a thousandth of that.

The current acceptable level for seafood is 1 microgram methylmercury per gram seafood, so you should worry about it about as much as you worry about a can of tuna fish. Or less, since methylmercury is more toxic than mercury. For bottled water the limit is 2 micrograms mercury per gram water.

Actually, the high end of the studies findings is bracketed by the range mentioned here:
http://www.truestarhealth.com/members/cm_archives07ML4P1A5.html
which cites a study measuring the amount of mercury in breast milk. .2 to 6 micrograms, correlated with the number of mercury amalgam fillings a mother has.

you almost included evidence in your article.. be more careful next time

As for the mercury, we are bombarded with poisions EVERY DAY in our toothpase (fluoride), shampoos (SLS), MERCURY in our teeth, MERCURY in vaccines (exponentially multiplied), AND NOW IN OUR SOFT DRINKS and every other product containing HFCS?

I purchase NOTHING containing HFCS, but others do, and others are being duped by the current horrifying commercials touting the safety of ingesting this unnatural substance, with no mention of how it is created, or any disclosure that it contains mercury. The public has to DIG very deep to even findREAL, ACCURATE information about the life-sustaining food and drink they ingest every day, and I find it absolutely revolting.

Long live corporate greed at the expense of public safety. Are we really that complacent?

What effect do the (3) genetically modified enzymes used have on HFCS impurities?

ZOMG! Teh enzeimz R genneticully mawdifyd wer gona dy!

Assuming that something is dangerous because of the “genetically modified” stigma when we have countless real dangers in our food supply isirrational.

On the FDA topic I’d like to say this. I want to see prison time. I bet those running FDA are thanking their God that they’re not Chinese. I actually want capital punishment, but that’d make me as lame as them.

To echo President Obama’s words spoken yesterday. “Shame on you!” Shame on all of you. I want a government that works. I want a government that is actually interested in functioning in the interest of the taxpayers, rather than ripping us off. What is it going to take?

Cane sugar from the West Indies financed much of the colonization of the Americas. Europeans did not consume sweets widely until sugar arrived from the new world. We can all imagine the birth of the French confection industry . Unfortunately England cut off cane sugar shipments to France in 1807. The French turned to the Sugar Beet, extracting and refining its lower sugar content with a complex chemical process, to support their new found addiction.

Price & availability of sugar was based on free enterprise until the US Agricultural Adjustment Act paid farmers not to produce around 1910. US Government Farm Subsidies have kept the price of cane sugar artificially high since. America’s sugary foods manufacturers eventually did what the French had, 160 years earlier. They created an active very complex chemical & biological process to produce cheaper sugar, from corn this time.

From 1974 to 1984, US High Fructose Corn Syrup per capita dry consumption, went from 0 to over 40 lbs. During this time ADM, Coke & Pepsi rode a ground swell of profits, America became completely addicted to sugar and various controversial issues surrounded HFCS. US food production is in many ways better than ever today, but the danger zones are more dangerous now. Science, technology and rational thinking are more necessary than ever in managing the inextricably joined forces of Food & Politics.

Credit American Public Radio, Marketplace for the historical concept used here.
Original blog post by Jmatt, former process industries specialist.