Canberra Man Poisoned [Mercury in Streets Ice Cream]

Yeah, I wouldn’t have thought it’d be worth deliberately fucking your whole life up just to get a few million out of a company.

But I guess there are some people out there who’d do anything for a buck; just watch ‘reality’ tv!

The ABC now has a story with Streets’ lawyers running the defence that Mr Suthern put the mercury in himself.

Amalgam fillings are an alloy of mercury (from 43% to 54%) along with silver, tin, and copper.Mercury-based fillings were apparently first used by French dentists in the 1810s. They continue to be used in some countries because of their hardness and durability and because they are inexpensive.

Mercury vapor is toxic, and the use of amalgam fillings is therefore controversial, as the fillings do emit mercury as a minute amount of vapor. Some government agencies, including the UN’s World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, claim that amalgam fillings are safe, even for pregnant women, children, and diabetics, except in rare cases of allergy. However, such allergic reactions can be serious, and have been linked to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [1] and Multiple Sclerosis [2]. The Food and Drug Administration has never approved amalgam for use in dental fillings and is meanwhile opposing its use but amalgam fillings are legally considered “devices” and therefore outside the regulatory control of the FDA.
Source: Wikipedia, Dental Fillings

This has me worried too – I’m so ancient I can remember the dentist using mercury to make my fillings with.

Geesus…. sounds like this has cost the poor bastard a fuck load… I sincerely hope he gets adequate compensation for it

how do things like metal end up in food?

at a guess I’d say that while we all think food is made in a nice clean kitchen, it is actually made in a workshop/factory style environment which does have lots of chemicals and bits of metal all over it

Ixnay,

Have a burl at this

The ABC had a story about this a couple of days ago: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1507052.htm