March 16, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Okay, I've got a couple of quick announcements for you. | |
| This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Lab Science Director here at what has been called the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, but today I'm announcing our name change. | |
| It is now called CWC Labs, and CWC stands for Consumer Wellness Center. | |
| ConsumerWellness.org is our non-profit website. | |
| And this lab is now called the Consumer Wellness Center Labs, or CWC Labs for short. | |
| So you can find our website at cwclabs.com. | |
| Now, coming up soon, we are announcing commercial testing. | |
| We will be internationally accredited, and very soon, it's coming right up. | |
| We've been working on this for two years. | |
| It's a very, very detailed effort. | |
| Oh my god, so detailed. | |
| The paperwork is like this high, and we're almost there. | |
| And once that's done, we'll be able to conduct commercial testing for food companies all over the world. | |
| So we're entering the commercial testing industry for the analytical science, well, the scientific analysis, let's say, of food composition. | |
| Now, the areas that we test for include heavy metals, obviously, but also nutritive minerals such as zinc and manganese, molybdenum, chromium, and so on. | |
| In addition to that, we have an entire organic chemistry section with an LC-MS time-of-flight instrument, and we can test for pesticides and other things, such as label compliance. | |
| But pesticides are huge. | |
| Pesticides, herbicides, lots of different chemicals. | |
| We can look at things like vitamin D as well. | |
| We can look at BPA. We can look at perchlorates. | |
| We can look at lots and lots of things in the foods. | |
| We also have an instrument for fluoride detection, an ion chromatograph. | |
| So we have a lot of capabilities to bring you. | |
| We're not accepting commercial customers yet. | |
| We have to wait for our accreditation to kick in, but it's imminent. | |
| So if you want to use our services, just go to cwclabs.com and check it every couple of weeks and see if we're ready to start accepting commercial clients. | |
| The reason that a lot of companies will want to use us is because we are clean food fanatics, really. | |
| I mean, we love clean food. | |
| And I'm an expert on this instrument, the ICP, inductively coupled plasma mass spec. | |
| This system, you know... | |
| I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but I put, I don't know, maybe a couple thousand hours on this instrument at this point. | |
| And I don't think there's anybody in the country that can run this better than I can on a food matrix type of testing. | |
| Because I've tested so many different foods and I've been able to troubleshoot so many different problems, I can get you good numbers. | |
| Mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, but other things as well as strontium or... | |
| Vanadium, even uranium, cesium, you know, whatever you need. | |
| We're not testing for cobalt anymore, but copper we are. | |
| Copper, zinc, obviously, iron, things like that. | |
| So I used this instrument to develop my whole line of fertilizers, which are the ultra-clean plant food fertilizers. | |
| So we were able to minimize the toxic heavy metals down to near zero levels while Boosting some of the nutritive minerals such as zinc and selenium that plants need in certain ranges in order to maximize their immune function and growth potential and disease resistance and so on. | |
| So if you're looking at heavy metals in food, I don't think there's anybody better in the country who can do it better than we can. | |
| There are some very, very competent people. | |
| I'm not saying everybody else isn't good at it, but we are passionate about food. | |
| You know, we're passionate about clean food and superfoods. | |
| And a lot of labs, they don't give a crap. | |
| They use that old USP standard where as long as all your metals are below 10 parts per million total, they just give you a pass. | |
| That's ridiculous. | |
| We look at single-digit parts per billion concentrations. | |
| That's 10,000 times more sensitive levels than that 10 ppm. | |
| We look at... | |
| Well, we can quantitate mercury down to 50 parts per trillion. | |
| Just FYI, I mean, our ability, our detection limits and our quantitation limits are so incredibly low thanks to this Agilent instrument. | |
| We can tell you the difference between half a part per billion and one part per billion of an element in your food, if you care. | |
| If you care to be that precise, we can actually detect that difference. | |
| But, you know... | |
| Anything below 20 parts per billion, typically, on things like lead, cadmium, and arsenic, nobody cares. | |
| Mercury, yeah, you want mercury even lower than that, but for the other metals, 20 parts per billion or lower is not such a big deal. | |
| Anyway, the other reason why you might want to use our lab is because A lot of labs, well, I don't know about a lot. | |
| I know of some other labs that intentionally distort their numbers by using crappy old instruments with low sensitivity because they cater to food customers that want to see low numbers in the test. | |
| It's a little scam that they're running. | |
| They... | |
| Or they'll use ICP-OES, optical emissions instruments, which are not very sensitive for a lot of these things. | |
| And their numbers are way off, and they're always low. | |
| They're not getting accurate numbers. | |
| But you see, they have a lot of customers in the food business because a lot of food companies, they're like, see no evil. | |
| They don't want to see actual lead numbers in their food. | |
| So they send it off to some lab that gives them a certificate. | |
| Yeah, it's all good, but it isn't really, you see. | |
| So if you use our lab, We're going to tell you the truth. | |
| And by the way, it doesn't mean that I'm not even going to know what your product is. | |
| You send it to us in an unlabeled little Ziploc bag or whatever. | |
| I don't know what your food is. | |
| I don't know your product or your brand or anything. | |
| You send us samples that we can test and we'll tell you what's in it. | |
| So, you know, don't be afraid like, oh, I don't want to send my food to the health ranger. | |
| He might go public with it. | |
| No, there's a firewall between our lab for commercial testing versus our editorial side. | |
| And besides, I don't know what your product is. | |
| I'm here to help you get cleaner raw materials and make cleaner products and to help be an advocate for you if you're a food company in that way by helping you get cleaner products. | |
| That's what I want to do. | |
| So, you know, that's my mission. | |
| Now, at the same time, yeah, sure, we're going to use the same lab to test off-the-shelf products and look at the heavy metals in them, but that's just stuff we're buying from the grocery stores. | |
| We don't even trust companies to send us their own foods. | |
| I wouldn't trust that. | |
| Chain of custody is not reliable. | |
| We go to the grocery store, we buy it ourselves, take it here to the lab, and then we test it. | |
| Then we know that's like a public product that anybody else might be buying as well. | |
| That's how we know we can trust the origins of it, you know, the custody. | |
| So, bottom line is, CWC Labs is our new site. | |
| We're going to be launching commercial testing very soon. | |
| And if you want us to test your raw materials, your finished products, anything else, just check us out there. | |
| And by the way, the FDA, I mentioned in another video, the FDA is going to start cracking down big time on GMP compliance. | |
| And they're going to start shutting down small companies that are not compliant. | |
| And this is one of the ways they're going to catch a lot of companies, is by saying, ah, where's your batch record for that production lot? | |
| You know that every production lot, you have to have a batch record with all the testing, microbiology, heavy metals, pesticides, composition, whatever. | |
| You've got to have all those tests, identity tests. | |
| If you don't have that stuff, they can come in and shut you down, and they're doing it. | |
| I have a mixed opinion on that about the FDA. On one hand, I see a lot of smaller companies out there that are cutting corners and they probably need to clean up their act. | |
| On the other hand, I see the FDA kind of targeting the natural products industry, which is very worrisome given that natural products are the only things that work. | |
| I mean, pharmaceuticals don't even work most of the time. | |
| It's like a failed system of toxic chemical medicine, you know? | |
| But Anyway, we'll help you. | |
| We'll help you understand the composition of what's in your food or your raw materials even before you manufacture. | |
| We'll help you get compliant with GMP after your manufacturing. | |
| You can send us samples for your production lots and your batches. | |
| We'll give you numbers on our letterhead with our ISO accreditation. | |
| You can put it back into your batch record and you will be FDA compliant for heavy metals or what other tests that we can do for you. | |
| So anyway, it's an exciting time. | |
| It's very interesting that I found myself in this position, started out as a journalist and a clean food advocate, and then got into the science, and now launching a commercial science laboratory to help other companies get their food supply cleaner as well. | |
| The end result? | |
| I'm passionate about clean food. | |
| And if you want my help, by the way, if you're a food company and you want my help consulting on clean food sourcing and origins and formulations and compositions, I will, after we are accredited, I will be available for that kind of consultation just to help you get your food products cleaner as well. | |
| I'm really, really into clean food and food transparency and natural food, you know, organic food, all these things. | |
| That's what I'm really into. | |
| I don't like GMOs. | |
| I don't like pesticides. | |
| I don't like heavily processed garbage, junk food, factory food, none of that stuff. | |
| I'm into natural food, superfood, real food. | |
| Actually, I'm into growing your own food. | |
| But, you know, most people can't do that. | |
| Anyway, thanks for watching. | |
| Watch cwclabs.com for the upcoming announcements. | |
| It's going to be very exciting. | |
| And yes, I'm on Team Tesla here. | |
| That's Nikola Tesla, not Tesla the car company. | |
| No. | |
| Nikola Tesla, the scientist. | |
| Yeah, that's who I like. | |
| Take care. | |
| Hey, I've got a lot of amazing videos coming this year. |
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