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June 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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HEAVY METALS: The dirty little secret of the supplements industry
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Oh my God, you know how Hollywood had a dirty little secret known as Harvey Weinstein and pedophilia and sexual predators preying on women?
Well, the nutritional supplements industry also has a dirty little secret and it's called heavy metals.
Heavy metals.
And you know what's great about what's happening today?
We are winning so much.
It's almost, you couldn't have predicted it, but We are winning.
In 2013, I launched my laboratory, CWC Labs.
We were the first to sound the alarm over lead in rice protein.
We were the first, and actually we're the only ones to have ever exposed lead and mercury and cadmium and rice protein.
We've exposed the high, high lead in zeolites.
Crazy high lead.
50 to 100 parts per million, typically.
That's what I've seen.
That's huge when you consider, you know, Prop 65 limits is 0.5 micrograms per day.
We're talking sometimes maybe a thousand times higher than Prop 65, depending on the serving size of zeolites.
We have exposed heavy metals in nutritional supplements, and I got to say, in the early days of this, in 2013 and 2014, we, well, me in particular, we I was attacked by the nutritional supplements industry.
Just viciously attacked and smeared.
Which, of course, is added to the attacks from the science quacks, the vaccine pushers and the pharmaceutical prostitutes.
So I was being attacked by everybody at the same time.
However, they couldn't refute the science.
When they sent their own samples to the labs, they found, oh my God, the Health Ranger's right.
There is lead in this product.
Oh my God, there is mercury in this product.
Oh my God, there is cadmium.
And since then, we've seen a proliferation of other groups that are now testing for heavy metals and other chemicals.
We're seeing, there are probably about six or seven groups in the United States now That are testing off-the-shelf foods for these toxic chemicals and metals.
Whereas back in 2013, I think there was only us and maybe Consumer Lab.
I don't know.
I'm not sure if anybody else was doing it.
We were pioneers in this, blazing the trail and taking a lot of flack, a lot of arrows in my back from the supplements industry because I dared disclose their dirty little secret, the Harvey Weinstein secret of the supplements industry, which is heavy metals.
Now, you've got all these groups talking about arsenic, talking about lead, talking about mercury in products.
You've got all these other groups testing products, not just us.
Which is great because we're all finding the same thing.
And no one, no one now in the supplements industry is saying it's a conspiracy theory.
They're not saying that lead is a conspiracy theory.
No.
In fact, they're not even lead denialists.
Well, I guess to some extent they are.
They still deny that their products contain lead or that lead is dangerous, things like that.
So there is still a lot of denialism.
But they can no longer say, oh, there's a conspiracy theory, when there's three, four, five, six labs now confirming everything.
And our lab, I think a year ago, over a year ago, got ISO accredited.
That was like a year and a half ago.
ISO accredited.
You talk about international validation.
That is the gold standard of laboratory accreditation.
It means that our lab results can be used in any court of law anywhere in Western civilization.
It is recognized globally as legal evidence, as forensic evidence.
And most other labs out there are not ISO accredited, including most university labs.
So my lab, CWC Labs, is actually more authoritative, has more credibility than nearly all university labs and private labs put together.
We are equivalent to other ISO accredited labs, so I want to say kudos to those other labs.
If you're ISO accredited, you know what it takes.
You've been through the two years of effort And all the paperwork and all the quality control and all the validation and the audits and the inspections and the testing, the proficiency testing, all that.
If you've been through all that, I applaud you because I've been through it.
I know what it takes to be one of the best labs in the world when it comes to heavy metals testing.
Now, here's what's coming.
Here's what's coming.
Now, we now run three mass spec instruments.
We're running an ICP-MS for heavy metals.
We're running an HPLC-MS-TOF time-of-flight mass spec system for analysis, quantitation of phytochemicals.
We're also running a single-quad mass spec for pesticide analysis, and we have a triple-quad mass spec on the way.
Pretty soon, we're going to be able to detect in the parts per trillion levels or concentrations for certain analytes.
Right now, we can detect parts per billion for many pesticides and so on, but once we get the triple quad, we could go down even lower than that.
We'll be running four mass spec instruments.
We're going to be one of the most authoritative, one of the largest food science labs in North America.
And we are using this to test off-the-shelf products.
And we are releasing results.
We just started a whole new release of results that combines the heavy metals testing and the pesticide testing into one easy-to-use chart, easy-to-read chart, and a score between 1 and 100 for every food product.
And we're releasing those exclusively on Good Gopher Mail.
So you can get a free inbox there.
Just go to goodgopher.com, sign up for the free inbox.
It's an inbox only.
You can't send mail out of there, but you can receive mail, and it's non-censored.
You see, Gmail has been censoring us.
Yahoo, MS, or Microsoft, other email providers have been censoring us because, you know, they don't want any of the truth to come out about anything.
So we created our own email system called Good Gopher Mail.
And you can have that mail forwarded to Gmail, by the way, if you just want to get it on Gmail.
Or you can just log in to goodgopher.com, or actually it's mail.goodgopher.com, and you can get the results there.
So we're going to start churning out even more.
We are testing breakfast cereals.
We are testing salad dressings.
We're testing gluten-free foods made out of rice, which I suspect are going to be heavily contaminated, by the way, because rice typically is a very dirty crop when they're using rice from China.
But we'll see.
I mean, maybe it's clean, and my guess is wrong.
Who knows?
We'll see.
We'll let the instruments tell us the truth, and that's what we'll report to you.
We're testing dog food.
We're going to test some baby formulas and things like that, but Most of our audience is not at a child-rearing age, so that's not really our focus.
We're going to be focused on nutritional supplements as well, so a lot of, well, vitamins or superfoods or dietary supplements That are heavily marketed as being safe or better than organic or whatever.
We're going to be testing those and giving you the results.
And again, these results now combine pesticides with heavy metals.
Now, I hear you asking, what about glyphosate?
What about glyphosate, Mike?
When are you going to have the glyphosate numbers?
We're working on that.
We've been working on glyphosate for quite some time, and glyphosate is not currently included in our target analytes, i.e.
an herbicide group.
We do test pesticides and fungicides and herbicides, but glyphosate is a very special Toxic molecule.
It is very difficult to get retention of glyphosate on an LC column, although we're working with some solutions that are very innovative.
I'll be co-authoring some science papers that come out of this, ultimately.
I've already had a science paper.
I'm co-author of a science paper that was published in LCGC Science Journal for a method that we developed for mass spec quantitation of cannabidiols.
Probably I'll be either the primary author or co-author on a number of papers related to glyphosate innovation because we are developing some things that are just pioneering.
Nobody in the world has these methods nailed down like what I anticipate we will.
Anyway, we'll see.
But glyphosate is a very difficult molecule to detect.
It's difficult to free from the sample matrix.
It's difficult to trap in the column.
It's difficult to light up on the mass spec interface.
It's a tricky little molecule.
It's tricky.
It's deceptive, just like the companies that make it.
It's like the molecule is the perfect representation of the bad ethics and deception of companies that manufacture and sell it, like Monsanto, of course, one of the most evil corporations in the world.
So anyway, glyphosate is not currently included in our analyte list.
But it will be sooner or later.
I don't know if it's two months away or two years away.
I don't know.
We're working on method development.
It's a tricky little thing.
Nevertheless, right now, we are scanning for about 40,000 chemicals.
And I don't know how many of those are pesticides, but it's a lot.
We have toxicology chemicals.
We have pharmacological chemicals.
We're scanning for antibiotics, for steroids, hormone disruptors, BPA, industrial chemicals and plasticizers and so on.
We're scanning for fungicides, herbicides and pesticides, but not glyphosate at the moment.
And we are using some very advanced methods, including ion fragmentation molecular fingerprint technology for confirmation.
In other words, this isn't just liquid chromatography, people.
If you know anything about lab science, you know a lot of labs are just running LC systems or HPLC systems, and that's a joke compared to what we're doing.
We're getting accurate molecular mass.
We're getting isotopic abundance.
We're getting isotopic spacing.
We're getting ion fragmentation molecular fingerprinting on top of the retention times.
You talk about great science.
We are validating molecules in five different ways.
Well, six if you count sodium adducts and so on.
But five rock-solid ways that we are validating molecules that we're finding.
I'm not sure that any other lab is doing that in the food industry, frankly.
We get called by industry lab accreditation companies or testing companies.
We get called when they want us to help validate a new method they're working on.
We were called by a major company.
I'm not going to mention their name.
One of the largest food companies in the world.
A global food giant.
You would know their name instantly.
We were called by them because they were working on a new method for...
I forgot what analyte it was in food.
I think it was arsenic in food.
But anyway, we were called by them because they wanted us to validate their method.
They knew we're one of the top food labs in the world.
And we didn't take on that project, by the way, because I don't like that company.
I mean, just going to lay it out there for you.
I don't take money from big, ugly food giants.
That's not what I do.
I mean, I have ethics, you know?
We have real science ethics.
We don't just take money from dishonest companies that have a history of evil.
That's not part of our revenue model, just so you know, in case you didn't already.
I'm sure you already knew that, frankly.
Nevertheless, just letting you know, they call us when they want the world's best food science forensic analysis method validation, you name it.
So this is the great work that we're doing.
And I don't know, if it sounds like I'm bragging, it's not an empty brag.
It is backed up with merit.
We'll go head-to-head with any lab in the world on accuracy or detection of analytes.
Any lab in the world.
And...
We shine in every test.
So this is something we've earned.
It's not an empty brag.
It's something that we've actually earned.
We've worked hard.
I've been learning lab science since 2013, you know, four years now where I've spent thousands of hours in the laboratory and even classroom instruction hours.
Yeah, I go to classes too.
I'll take one-week seminars on mass spec software.
I have chemists that teach me organic chemistry principles.
I have consultants that I will call when I have a special problem, and they'll give me guidance on what to do for the right chemistry column, the right pH, matrix interference strategies, all these things.
So I learn from others.
But I'm very passionate about this, so I learn quickly.
And as a result, our lab has now become one of the best in the world at what we do.
And our goal, of course, is to share this all with you.
So you talk about winning.
We are exposing the fraud and the heavy metals in the supplements industry, and we're doing it with world-class science.
That's winning.
That's winning, especially since some of these dishonest companies were calling us, you know, conspiracy theorists and things like that a few years ago, pretending like they didn't have any lead in their products.
And now they know if, you know, the coverage of natural news matters.
Oh, and you know what?
I have a big announcement to share with you here.
I'm probably not.
This is a little early.
I probably shouldn't tell you this.
But I'm just going to go ahead and do it because we're several minutes into this podcast and, you know, not everybody's going to hear this, but we just acquired one of the most valuable domain names in the world when it comes to food science.
And we're going to be launching it soon to report the truth about what's in foods.
And that domain is food.news.
So you talk about top level.
Food.news is where it's going to be.
And we're going to be rolling out the good news about foods that are tested clean and then the bad news about foods that are not clean, foods that are contaminated with heavy metals, foods that contain hidden pesticides and herbicides and BPA and other toxins.
There's going to be good news on that site and there's going to be bad news on that site.
And we let the science determine which category every product ends up in.
It's not up to our opinion.
It's not my opinion.
It's not how I feel about a food.
If it's clean, it's clean.
If it's dirty, it's dirty.
The instruments don't lie.
The ICP-MS doesn't have emotions.
It just follows the laws of physics, and that's what we report.
So pretty soon, we're going to have food.news up and running.
I mean, we already own the domain right now.
We're going to have it up and running, and holy cow, we are going to put out We're getting incredible scientific testing results on so many foods, off-the-shelf foods.
We're buying them from Amazon.com.
We're buying them from Whole Foods.
We're buying them off the shelf at grocery stores.
And we're testing them for pesticides and testing them for heavy metals and putting them out on food.news.
That's our plan for next year.
This is all going to be 2018.
And we're going to build the world's largest database, the world's largest database of independent science food testing, which is a job that the FDA should have done, but the FDA refused to do because they are, of course, corrupt.
And they and the USDA are both beholden to the interests of the toxic food industry, which has been selling people poison for decades.
Causing cancer, causing diabetes, causing heart disease, poisoning consumers, and getting away with it because the FDA refused to do its job.
And the EPA refused to do its job.
And the USDA refused to do its job, just went along with every toxic chemical and pesticide that the industry wanted to use.
So, wow, you talk about a revolution.
You talk about decentralization of science.
You talk about pioneering journalism, investigative journalism.
That's us.
That's what we're doing.
Food.News is the place to be.
I mean, in addition to natural news, of course, but, you know, Food.News is going to specialize in this reporting on food composition and food industry news and things like that.
But, man, these are exciting times.
This is super exciting, really, if you think about what's coming.
So I want to thank you for your support.
My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
I am the lab science director of cwclabs.com and the volunteer executive director of the nonprofit Consumer Wellness Center at consumerwellness.org.
And I'm going to be bringing you all this information that I promised.
It's coming.
And it's coming right now.
We're sending out charts through Good Gopher Mail right now.
And there's a lot more coming on food.news in 2018.
So thank you for your support.
Spread the word.
Spread the word.
And all you companies that have clean products, you're going to love this because we're going to do testing for you for free and we're going to highlight the cleanliness of your foods.
You don't have to be afraid of what we're doing.
We're not out to get anybody.
We're just out to celebrate clean foods and also expose contaminated products.
And that's it.
You have clean products.
You're going to love what we do.
We're going to bring you positive publicity and more sales.
You have dirty, contaminated products?
I don't know.
You might not like what we do.
Tough luck.
Get used to it.
Clean up your damn products and you won't have to worry about it.
You see?
Simple message.
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