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01/29/2018 / By Mike Adams

Health Ranger science lab tour: How pesticides are tested with liquid chromatography and mass spec instruments

If you’ve ever wanted to know exactly how pesticides and other food contaminants are tested in a real science laboratory, you’ll want to watch this video filmed at CWC Labs. Pardon the mess in the video, but as I explain, real science often looks cluttered in an actual laboratory. In this six-minute video, I explain […]

10/20/2017 / By Mike Adams

LAUNCHING: See the new lab test results format for supplements, superfoods and fast food

As promised, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center is rolling out a new format that details the lab test results for off-the-shelf products, including foods, supplements and fast food. An example of the new format is shown below. It aggregates testing results from two mass spec lab instruments (ICP-MS and HPLC-MS-TOF), then assigns a final score […]

10/13/2017 / By Mike Adams

EXCLUSIVE: Organic bone broth products found to be clear of all agricultural chemicals; lab tests confirm why organic really is better

We’ve got breaking news on bone broth product testing in the lab: Two brands of organic bone broth products we just finished testing at the Consumer Wellness Center (CWC) were both found to have none of the chemicals we detected in non-organic products tested earlier. In other words, these organic bone broth products were found […]

08/05/2017 / By Amy Goodrich

Glyphosate testing finds traces of toxic herbicide in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

Ben & Jerry’s — an iconic ice cream brand famous for its Fairtrade and eco-friendly practices — is under fire after lab tests uncovered traces of a controversial herbicide in most of its products. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) recently reported that the world’s most widely used herbicide sold under the brand name Roundup was […]

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