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Oct. 4, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Health Ranger LAB TOUR video - New ICP-MS instrument...
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I want to show you this really cool video from our lab, something that you haven't seen.
This is our second ICP-MS instrument with the autosampler robotic arm and some of the sample loop control valves and the injection sequence for heavy metals testing.
So let me play that video for you, but I wanted to tell you up front what it is because there's quite a bit of noise in the lab.
There's a lot of vacuum pumps running and there's exhaust fans and so on.
So I'm not sure how well you can hear my voice on this video that you're about to see, but at least you'll be able to see some of the hardware.
So check this out and I'll continue with the description on the other side of this little short video.
Alright, welcome.
This is Mike Adams here at CWC Labs.
This is one of our auto samplers here.
I want to show you a little bit about this.
This is our heavy metals testing instrument, which is a mass spec ICP-MS, inductively coupled plasma system.
Sorry about the background noise.
There's a lot of vacuum pumps here.
But this is running through a rinse cycle right now, so it's just dumping that into waste.
And what we have here See, it's going to another rinse container.
These are the external standards that are used to run the calibration curve so that we know what the different concentrations of lead and mercury and arsenic and so on look like.
We actually run over 30 elements here, including nutritive elements, zinc, magnesium, manganese, and so on.
We can also test aluminum, copper, things like that.
And this is a multivalve system Let me show you.
It's going to load up the sample into this loop here, which is a 1.5 milliliter loop.
We'll start the sample loading here shortly.
This diagram shows how the valves function, and this shows some of the cycling of how it loads the sample, and then does the injection, which turns it into an ionized stream of aerosolized Particles that are then thrust through this plasma torch tube right here.
Oh, hold on a second.
It's about to go to a sample uptake.
I want to show you that because it's a pretty cool process.
This is our second ICP-MS instrument here.
There's one behind me that also runs, but it's quite a bit older since we've been doing this for a while.
All right, here we go.
It's going into taking up one of the external standards.
It's going to push the liquid through this line and into this sample loop here.
You can see it filling.
And this is going to waste because it's a little bit extra.
Alright, now it finished taking up that sample.
It's going into the rinse.
This is the washing and these are rinse cycles.
Now it's injecting this sample into the ICP-MS for analysis.
And it does that by changing the valve and pushing it into this nebulizer, which is a piece of glass with a very special tip on it.
It's a nebulizer tip and this is some pressurized gas here in order to put some of its argon In order to push that through.
And this is the spray chamber.
And then it goes through this.
It's really bright there because that's a plasma torch inside.
A plasma torch destroys all the molecules of the ionized stream.
It turns it into charged ions representing the different elements.
And then there's a quadrupole unit in there that filters the elements by their mass to charge ratio.
And these are some of the tuning solutions, rinse solutions, internal standard, which I'm not going to explain, but it's all necessary.
But this robot is pretty cool.
Let me show you how this thing works.
It's got this single track up here with a rotating arm, so it's very clever about how it moves.
Once it goes through this rinse cycle, oh here it is.
It's chunking away at the rinse cycle here.
Cleaning out the loop and everything.
Oh man, I missed the robot!
Okay, I want to show you this robot because it's pretty clever how it moves.
It's taking up a sample right now.
It's the second sample there in the external standards.
Should be done shortly.
Here we go.
See how this thing rotates?
It's got a single track, but It's able to rotate itself and not tangle itself on these lines.
So this is a greatly improved auto sampler.
This is actually the SPS4 auto sampler.
Much better than the old auto sampler that we used to use.
I'm not even going to show you that one.
So I kind of like this new system.
This is the peristaltic pump right here, in case you're wondering, the peripump.
And it's taken up tuning solutions, the internal standard, and it's also pushing the sample in.
And the speed of this pump will change when it's taken up a sample.
So, by the way, on the floor down here, this is the rough pump.
This is actually providing the rough vacuum of the system.
And there's another turbine in there, which is the final vacuum generator, so to speak.
Suction device.
That turbine costs about $50,000.
And I know that because we had one break one time.
And it's a very expensive replacement.
It's like a jet engine turbine in there.
So these use a little bit of helium, too.
For the collision cell.
So, if you go here, I'm going to show you the gas connections here.
You can see there's the dilution option gas, as it's called, the makeup gas, nebulizer gas.
There's helium, and then there's argon.
This goes through a lot of argon.
And then there's, this is the heat removal system.
That's the heat out top.
Oh, robot's working again.
And we're in sample number four.
Well, external standard number four.
And all these tubes that you see here, all these lines, they fail.
At some point, sooner or later, they all fail.
And you have to troubleshoot all these tubes and you have to replace them.
And you have to swap out all this tubing and plumbing at different times depending on what has failed.
And these are tensioners here for the peripump.
There's a lot of little parts that you have to deal with.
But I just wanted to give you a look at this.
And of course here's your table of elements right here.
It just kind of shows you the elements that we're looking at.
And then here is the relative isotopic abundance table.
That's also very handy so that you can look up an element and you can see the percentage of which isotope occurs naturally in nature, which is important for your concentration calculations and your calibration curves.
So this is how it all works.
Yeah, here's the valve tuning IST, internal standard valve right here.
Here's your, what's called your ISIS valve.
Yeah, it's modeled after terrorists.
Yeah, ISIS. And then, this represents the main bottles, which are right here.
In case you're wondering how this all works.
It takes at least a year to get good at running this thing, by the way.
And it's not a small feat, but we've been doing it for 10 years.
And this instrument, now we've had about a year.
So, there you go.
That's the CWC Labs, HealthRangerStore.com.
When you buy our products, you can rest assured they are tested for heavy metals and glyphosate on a different instrument.
We test for aflatoxins, E. coli, salmonella, also different instruments.
And then we're about to set up for dioxin testing, which uses a gas chromatography system that's completely different from what you see here.
This is liquid.
This is not even liquid chromatography.
This is ICP-MS.
But we have liquid chromatography systems as well and a gas system coming online.
Thanks for watching.
All right.
So what you saw there, again, was for our second ICP-MS instrument, which stands for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, And this is a way to look at masses, elemental masses, such as lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, but also nutritive elements such as magnesium and selenium and zinc and so on.
We can look at those with this instrument very, very accurately, and this is what we do to analyze all the heavy metals in all the products that we manufacture and sell from healthrangerstore.com.
Now, we are the only online retailer in the world that I know of that does this kind of ongoing testing of every single production lot.
Some people say they've tested a product and they test it one time and then they sell that product for many years after that, claiming, well, it's tested.
Well, you only tested it once.
You know, agricultural products and nutritional products, all the lots vary.
You have to test every single production lot, which is what we do.
That's why we are running thousands of these tests every year.
literally thousands of tests.
And our lab is so busy that for quite a long time, we've rejected anybody that wanted to use our lab as a third-party lab.
We just don't have any excess capacity.
We are 100% occupied using our lab for our own products to make sure everything's clean.
And this is also why, to date, nobody has ever found a product that we sold that contained high levels of any heavy metal.
It's never happened.
And it never will happen because we do routine testing.
And that's one of the reasons why people purchase from us, because they know that it's going to be clean.
And we reject a lot of raw materials, such as turmeric powder, which often contains high lead content.
So we reject those lots, those production lots.
And somebody else buys them, and then those are found in somebody else's product, maybe even sold on Amazon.com, that contains high lead, but nobody knows because nobody's doing the testing.
Now, in addition to testing for heavy metals, we also do glyphosate testing using a mass spec method for the quantitation of glyphosate that I worked on for 18 months, by the way.
That was quite a long time to develop that method, and it's a very special method using a triple-quad mass spec, which means a triple quadrupole, which I know sounds funny, but that's the way that the terms are in this industry.
Triple quadruple mass spec instrument has very high sensitivity.
And with glyphosate, it can give you a limit of detection of somewhere in the low single digit parts per billion.
So it's not quite one part per billion, but definitely five parts per billion is visible.
And we can quantitate.
So a limit of quantitation, or LOQ as it's called, is a little bit higher than that Depending on what's happening with standards and samples and so on, that can be around 10 parts per billion, or give or take.
That does vary depending on what's happening.
Now, we're adding dioxin testing to our lab, and this is one of the things I wanted to talk to you about here.
I'll be showing you a video once it's up and running, and it might be Christmas before we are comfortable with this new instrument.
But this new instrument for dioxin testing, it is a triple-quad gas chromatography system.
So instead of the typical liquid chromatography, which is what is used for glyphosate testing, for example, it's gas chromatography, or GC as is known.
So GC takes advantage of the gaseous state of substances and a long column for separations, feeding the results into a highly sensitive triple-quad mass spec system.
That, of course, can sort streams of ionized materials or gaseous materials by their masses.
That's why it's called a mass spectrometry.
It gives you a whole spectrograph of the masses that just came through and, importantly, the quantitation or the quantity of those masses that have come through.
The column at any given moment, any given slice of time.
So it's not just pass-fail.
It's not like, oh, we saw that mass, that molecule.
No.
We can see the molecule, we can see the mass, and we can see how much of that is coming through, and we can count those, and we can see the peak, we can calculate the area of the peak, and so we know the concentration.
Of the analyte, which is the target molecule, which in this case is dioxins, we can know the concentration in the original material.
So we'll be able to tell you how many, let's say, nanograms per gram of the original material.
It might be cheese, it might be meat, it's going to be a lot of animal products for dioxins, but we can tell you how many nanograms or how many picograms per gram Of dioxins are found in the original material.
And in order to do this, it requires an extensive set of hardware, also expensive as well.
I mean, every one of these instruments is hundreds of thousands of dollars just to buy it.
And I can tell you the annual maintenance contract on one of these is about $55,000.
Think about it.
We will spend more than $4,000 a month just on a maintenance contract, not to mention what it costs to run and buy.
That's our level of dedication to clean food.
That's just one of many mass spec instruments that we have.
Our monthly bill Just to share some numbers with you, our monthly bill on just maintenance contracts for all the mass specs, I'm just guessing it's probably over $20,000.
That's just maintenance.
In any case, the reason it's so expensive is because these are precision parts, and there are many consumable parts that have to be replaced, and the electronics are very delicate and sometimes they fail and sometimes parts have to be swapped out and also you have to pull a very strong vacuum because when you're introducing this stream of ionized gas into the mass spec interface you have to have a strong vacuum otherwise your stream of
ionized your charged particles are just going to collide with everything that's in the air Your oxygen and your nitrogen and CO2 and everything that's in the air.
So you have to pull the air out.
You have to pull a very, very strong vacuum.
There are vacuum pumps that do this, and they require quite a lot of electricity, as you might imagine.
And sometimes vacuum pumps fail as well.
So you have a vacuum environment.
And then you have multiple quadrupoles, and you have a collision cell, and there's various pumps in this whole system, especially on the liquid chromatography side.
There's all kinds of valve switches and components and things like this.
So it gets very expensive very quickly.
But the result is that we will be able to independently test our own products and also off-the-shelf foods for dioxin concentrations.
Including various dioxin molecules because there's more than one dioxin molecule.
The term dioxins actually refers to a class of molecules that are highly toxic and there's one in particular that is orders of magnitude more toxic than everything else and we're going to be, of course, looking for that one first.
But as far as I know, I think we're the first private lab Tied to a product manufacturer and online retailer in the world that will be conducting routine dioxin testing on our products that are animal in origin.
Now remember, dioxins are typically not a problem in just regular agricultural products that don't have a lot of lipids and that aren't derived from animals.
So you're not going to find dioxins in spinach, by the way.
You might find E. coli in spinach, and we do microbiology testing as well, but you're not going to find dioxins typically in spinach or celery or onions or whatever, not even in turmeric.
You're going to find dioxins because they are fat-soluble bioaccumulative molecules that you're going to find them in animal products.
So, you know, cheese, perhaps whey protein, but we'll see.
Definitely meats, definitely any kind of animal derivative that contains fats.
That's where you would see it.
Now, we're going to look at collagen products.
I don't anticipate seeing dioxins in collagen.
And I also don't anticipate seeing dioxins in whey protein because it's just the proteins.
It's not milk fat.
And I also don't anticipate, by the way, seeing dioxins in milk powder that is fat-free.
Okay?
But that's just my guess.
I'm going to actually let the instrument give me the correct answer on that and we'll see what the instrument says.
And we're also going to go to the grocery stores and we're going to buy a bunch of different animal products and beef jerky, I guess, and probably, I don't know, pepperoni slices or whatever.
Sandwich meat and cheese and this and that and cream, you know, things like that.
Butter, right?
And we're going to see what level of dioxins we are finding in those products.
And that's going to be, you know, very educational, I should say.
And nobody else probably is willing to do that.
Number one, because we're going to take a lot of heat for doing that.
The one thing that typical food companies don't want you to know about is extreme hormone disruptors, endocrine disruptors, cancer-causing chemicals that might be in their foods.
And we're not here to embarrass anybody, by the way.
And our tendency is to actually not single out any specific manufacturer.
We may not even name manufacturers when we find dioxins.
Rather, we're trying to canvas...
The field to say that, okay, we looked at 20 butter brands, let's say, and here's the average level that we found across them, and here's the high and here's the low, and we may not mention the brand names.
We probably won't, because that's not the point.
We're not here to embarrass specific brands, and even those brands may not have control.
Over how much dioxin is in their butter.
And the other thing that is absolutely true from a science perspective is that when we test one product from one grocery store one time, that's just a snapshot.
And that does not represent all the other products and all the other grocery stores and all the other production lots and all the other raw materials that that same manufacturer might get.
So I don't want to go out there and test one butter sample and have a high number and then name a brand like who's who's like a brand on that, like Land O Lakes.
Isn't that a butter brand?
So I don't want to say that Land O Lakes has super high dioxins when the next batch coming out next month might have none.
Again, because it's an agricultural product and lot production changes all the time.
So, frankly, the only way to get accurate numbers about a brand is to test every production lot, which is what we do internally.
But again, I think we're the only people who do that.
I don't think anybody else does that.
Not that I'm aware of.
And we do it for heavy metals and glyphosate and other things as well.
So we'll give you snapshots of what's happening out there.
And we're also going to look at the East Palestine fallout in Pennsylvania, especially in East Ohio, and some of the Amish farms and soil samples there and things like that.
And we're going to look at maybe even water samples, see what we can find.
And we'll give you our best assessment from there.
So stay tuned.
It's going to be an interesting year in 2024 in terms of us doing all of this and sharing all these results with you.
And I'll bring you more details as we have them.
Again, my name is Mike Adams.
In case you don't know, naturalnews.com is where you'll be able to find the articles on this.
And you can find more of my podcasts on this subject and videos from our lab coming up soon at brighteon.com.
So thank you for listening.
And keep your food clean.
We'll help you do that in every way we can.
Thank you for listening.
Take care.
Alright, I'm going to do something unusual for you today.
I've got here the Ranger buckets from HealthRangerStore.com that so many people have invested in as a food supply.
This is certified organic, laboratory verified, but I'm going to actually go through and open these and show you...
What's in them today and show you our dedication to the kind of packaging, the kind of secure packaging, and the quantity of what you get in here.
This is just one of the, these are almonds in here, one of the types of packaging that we have.
I want you to notice how secure it is.
You know, you can...
No, it's okay.
Sit.
I don't want my dog to get alerted by that.
But you've got different nuts and seeds in the package, and then if you take off this lid, there we go, you've got these kinds of hard bricks of vacuum packed with the aid of nitrogen in this very rigid, rugged, thick material that prevents oxygen from oxidizing these products.
So here we have black beans.
Here we have lima beans.
Here we have millet.
And rice, again, all certified organic, all laboratory verified.
We test them for heavy metals, we test them for pesticides such as, or herbicides like glyphosate, flax seeds here.
We test them for microbiology to make sure that you're not getting E. coli, salmonella, yeast or mold.
Here's red lentils, high protein, again, all certified organic.
And in this pail, it makes it virtually rodent proof.
So more of the smaller packages here.
These tend to be nuts and seeds and some butter powder.
Now the ingredients vary based on what's actually available right now from the world supply of food.
So you need to go to our website healthrangerstore.com to see what's actually in the buckets that are available right now.
It can vary.
But here's certified organic popcorn.
Here's red beans.
Here's quinoa.
Here's some more small red beans, pinto beans, and oh, that might be palm sugar and cacao powder.
It just depends.
It varies based on what we have available, so you'll have to go there and check it.
But look, this is what you get in a two-bucket set.
It's a huge number of servings.
It can feed...
A lot of people for an extended period of time, the actual statistics are on the website.
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All of these food items are going to go up in price as time goes on here because of the collapsing value of the dollar.
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Food prices aren't going down.
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When you cook it, of course, it expands because these are dried formats.
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Alright, so here's an example of a mega bucket right here.
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This is a certified organic palm sugar, a low glycemic sweetener.
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They're very rugged and they're also easy to handle because of their size.
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If you're concerned at all about the availability of the food supply, then you absolutely want to check this out, because what we have is unmatched anywhere in the world.
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