Mercury in corn syrup

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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:55:33 +0000

There is no established safe dose for elemental mercury, the type discovered in corn syrup. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says an average-sized woman should limit her exposure to 5.5 micrograms a day of methylmercury, the kind found in fish.



There is a difference between “elemental mercury,” which is just mercury itself, and “methylmercury,” which is an organic form of mercury. Methylmercury is definitely toxic. There’s apparently no research on whether or not elemental mercury is.