By Mike Barrett
With today’s manufacturing there are many chemicals and toxins that are both purposefully added to products, as well as those unintentionally added.
Mercury is one of those unintended additions to many of the products people consume and topically apply every day. In order to avoid exposure to this heavy metal, and in turn avoid the risk of any heavy metal toxicity, you need to know where the metal resides in order to avoid it.
Mercury Highly Present in Many Foods and Consumer Products
One of the most significant places you may find mercury is in processed foods.
In 2009, a study found that almost half of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury— a carcinogenic chemical element that is toxic in all its forms to the human body.Even more troubling, nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products that listed HFCS as the first or second ingredient were found to contain mercury as a whole. With an incredible amount of processed foods and fast foods containing this ingredient, the result could be described as a mercury pandemic.