Posted by Larry Hoover on February 14, 2009, at 22:05:32
In reply to Re: What's the deal with silver amalgams?, posted by rskontos on January 25, 2009, at 18:32:22
Two different pieces of news.
1. Glucose/fructose syrup, sometimes called high-fructose corn syrup, has been found to be contaminated by mercury in some cases. It turns out that industrial chemicals (caustic soda/lye and hydrochloric acid) used in the processing of corn starch to produce the sweetener are the actual sources of the mercury. There are still eight chemical plants in the U.S. (about 80 worldwide) that use mercury cells as cathodes in the chlor-alkali process in question. Anyway, the mercury gets into the caustic and the HCl, and it then gets into the syrup. There are some brand name products that have tested positive for this mercury (see table, third link).
http://www.healthobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid=105026
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/2
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/8/1/2/table/T1Also, the link between the mercury preservative (thimerosal) that is in the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine has been cleared of any connection with the development of autism in children receiving the vaccine. Moreover, the scientist (named Wakefield) who first raised the alarm about this purported link has been proven to have falsified the data.
http://briandeer.com/mmr/lancet-summary.htm
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruling has dismissed the first few of thousands of applications for compensation alleging autism as a result of thimerosal. It is believed that these rulings will serve as precedent for dismissal of all the others. The full text of the rulings (second link) are very detailed.
http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/omnibus-autism-proceeding
http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/./node/5026Lar
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