... Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and HFCS Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and High Fructose Corn Syrup by David Wallinga, M.D., Janelle Sorensen, Pooja Mottl, Brian Yablon, ... IATP Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and HFCS Figure 3: Synthesis of High Fructose Corn Syrup Corn wet milling Corn processors / refiners Corn kernal Starch Hydrolysis Polysaccarides Glucose Isomerization ... IATP Not So Sweet: Missing Mercury and HFCS Caustic soda produced by a mercury cell process is contaminated with 0.2 to 0.3 parts per million (ppm) of mercury, 15 and perhaps as much as ppm, in some...