On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:56:21 -0700
"D.Currie" > wrote:

>
> I'll second that notion. Just because it's not toxic doesn't mean I want
> to eat it in quantity. Or actually, at all. That's the type of thing I'd
> pick off and set aside.


If you have any amalgam fillings, you have far more to fear from having
them in your mouth than gold, especially the amount of gold that ends up on
a cake.

Which is to say, basically nothing to fear. the gold is non-reactive -
your amalgam fillings will react with aluminum.