Sunday, May 2, 2010

NY Times Article - For High-Fructose Corn Syrup, the Sweet Talk Gets Harder

By Melanie Warner
April 30, 2010

For much of 2009, Michael Locascio, an executive at ConAgra Foods, watched with concern as the bad news about high-fructose corn syrup kept coming. In January, there were studies showing that samples of the sweetener contained the toxic metal mercury. Then came a popular Facebook page that was critical of the syrup. By year-end, there were about a dozen spoofs on YouTube mocking efforts by makers of high-fructose corn syrup to show that science is on their side.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/business/02syrup.html?ref=business

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