And whatever happened to the HFCS that was found to be mercury contaminated?

I know that the HFCS makers blamed "old samples" for the detections, and
claimed that all plants had stopped using sodium hydroxide ("caustic soda")
manufactured with "mercury-cell" Chlor-alkali processes circa 2009/2010, but
sodium hydroxide is still made via the mercury-cell process, because it
produces sodium hydroxide that is more pure.

The reason that this was such a hush-hush thing was that the beekeeping
analysis that found the mercury was done well after this was supposed to
have been fixed.
As I remember, there was far more mercury in fish at the time, but choosing
a process than ends up with mercury in your product just seems negligent.

That said, when we were kids, we had small plastic handheld mazes that one
would tip and tilt to move a blob of mercury through the maze.  They were
pocket-sized, and if broken, the mercury would go wherever.  These days, if
a student breaks a mercury thermometer in a college chem lab, they evacuate
the building, and call in the Haz-Mat team to "clean up".

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