Splenda

[Guest guest]

Just read in my morning paper(Mobile Register)about the town of

McIntosh, AL, being riddled with mercury in the form of a salty

aggregate that apparently has polluted the local streams. McIntosh

is the only place in the country that manufactures Splenda.

According to EPA Toxicologist Deborah Rice, people have been

ingesting it and inhaling it for some time. Previous contamination

from an Olin Corp. chlorine manufacturing plant in McIntosh has

forced the town to shut down some of its drinking water sources and

the chlorine plant itself has been declared a Federal Superfund site

because of the severity of the contamination. There are less than

300 people in McIntosh, so the aggregate has spread to surrounding

communities as it was used as a road-surfacing material. This

brings it into homes and workplaces as dust from shoes and tires.

Splenda is not mentioned in the article and there is no information

on the impact of this dangerous waste material on their location.

[Guest guest]

Hi Chcinagr:

So what is the implication of the article? ................

A) That Splenda may contain mercury? or ........

That Splenda production creates mercury as a byproduct? or .....

C) That it is a curiosity item that the location where Splenda is

manufactured happens to suffer mercury contamination?

Also, is it only Splenda that is made there, or is sucralose, the

important ingredient in Splenda, also made there? It seems to me

that sucralose is the ingredient people here would most likely be

interested in, rather than Splenda, which contains other stuff that

one would probably want to avoid (no, not mercury) in addition to the

sucralose.

Thanks.

Rodney.

--- In , " chcinagro " <chcinagr@b...>

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>

> Just read in my morning paper(Mobile Register)about the town of

> McIntosh, AL, being riddled with mercury in the form of a salty

> aggregate that apparently has polluted the local streams. McIntosh

> is the only place in the country that manufactures Splenda.

> According to EPA Toxicologist Deborah Rice, people have been

> ingesting it and inhaling it for some time. Previous contamination

> from an Olin Corp. chlorine manufacturing plant in McIntosh has

> forced the town to shut down some of its drinking water sources and

> the chlorine plant itself has been declared a Federal Superfund

site

> because of the severity of the contamination. There are less than

> 300 people in McIntosh, so the aggregate has spread to surrounding

> communities as it was used as a road-surfacing material. This

> brings it into homes and workplaces as dust from shoes and tires.

> Splenda is not mentioned in the article and there is no information

> on the impact of this dangerous waste material on their location.