Health Ranger Why independent science TERRIFIES the food and supplement industries (but shouldn�t)
Over the last few years, Natural News has set something in motion that absolutely terrifies
the food and supplement industries. What have we done that�s so frightening? We�ve started
to use good science to analyze foods and supplements for heavy metals, pesticides, industrial chemicals
and more.
We were instrumental in accelerating the independent food science movement in 2013, first exposing
the toxic heavy metals (lead, cadmium, mercury) in organic rice protein products imported
from China. Very quickly, the entire protein industry moved away from that contaminated
rice material, vastly reducing toxic heavy metals exposure across tens of millions of
consumers. That never would have happened without Natural News and my laboratory, CWC
Labs.
In the years since, we�ve exposed the shockingly high level of lead in zeolite products, and
we�re now publishing summary charts showing analyses of supplements, covering pesticides,
pharmacological chemicals, heavy metals and much more. (See example report below.)
What you are witnessing in all this is the �democratization of science.� It is a
decentralized revolution in food transparency, and the movement is rapidly proliferating.
In addition to the Consumer Wellness Center (where I serve as the executive director)
now analyzing and publishing food analysis results, another non-profit group called the
Clean Label Project is also conducting laboratory analysis of products. The Organic Consumers
Association, Cornucopia and the Environmental Working Group are also engaged in lab analysis
of foods and personal care products, and I�m personally aware of at least two more similar
projects coming online in 2018.
Four years ago, we were called �conspiracy theorists� for exposing lead in rice protein�
now we�re the pioneers of new science
Fascinatingly, the outstanding science we are all conducting was originally rejected
as a �conspiracy theory� by dishonest supplement industry hucksters. A few of them
desperately tried to silence my own work, and to this day they lie to their own customers
and claim their contaminated products are �clean.� Yet, to this day, no one has
ever shown my lab results to be incorrect. The lead contamination of organic rice protein
products I first spotted in 2013 was a very serious issue for the supplements industry,
and that�s why Garden of Life, Vega and most other protein manufacturers changed their
formulations to avoid toxic rice protein.
Now, my own lab is ISO accredited (17025), meaning its results are accepted as scientific
facts by any court of law in the western world. We were also awarded a Certificate of Excellence
in heavy metals tested for environmental water samples. No one argues with the results of
the food science we conduct; they simply engage in character assassination to try to avoid
admitting the truth: Their products are dirty. And they�ve been lying to their own customers
for decades.
Just this week, the Clean Label Project discovered that 80% of infant formula samples tested
�positive� for arsenic. Although I disagree with the use of the term �positive� when
it comes to heavy metals � a preferred result would report ppb concentrations � nobody
is calling the Clean Label Project a group of �conspiracy theorists� for daring to
conduct heavy metals analysis on food products.
That�s because the food industry has slowly come to realize they can�t stop independent
science. If they put a product on the shelf, we can buy that product, test it, and report
the results to the public. Although the extremely high cost and technical difficult of building
and running a qualified lab is way beyond the reach of most organizations � I�ve
spent over $2 million on my lab, and very few people have the required scientific qualifications
to operate mass spec instruments � there are still a growing number of non-profits
that are investing in good science to analyze off-the-shelf products in the public interest.
The days of food and supplements hiding toxic ingredients is rapidly coming to an end
For decades, the food and supplements industries hid toxic ingredients behind pleasant-looking
labels, tricking consumers into buying heavily contaminated products while making them believe
they were �better than organic.� For example, if I hadn�t spearheaded the science investigation
into organic rice protein products, even Garden of Life might still be selling �Raw Protein�
contaminated with mercury and lead (which is exactly what they were doing up until early
2014, but they since reformulated).
Even today, Whole Foods Market and Amazon.com continue to sell food and supplement products
that are routinely contaminated with toxic heavy metals. Isn�t it interesting that
the Washington Post � owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon � seems to take no
interest in reporting that science? Instead, they try to cover it up and pretend such heavy
metals don�t exist. But their science denialism is only making them look like fools, as real
people are now turning to other independent news sources (like this website) to learn
the truth that the Washington Post won�t dare tell them.
There�s a spillover benefit to the public in all this, by the way. The fact that we
exposed the heavy metals in rice protein products also served notice to other companies that
they, too, should start testing their own finished products for heavy metals. As a result,
this independent lab science effort has resulted in a safe, more honest food supply for everyone.
That�s part of our mission, of course: To celebrate clean foods while encouraging those
who have contaminated materials to clean up their act.
Now, with Natural News, the Clean Label Project, the OCA, EWG and other groups all pursuing
the same mission of full transparency for products, the days of food and supplement
companies hiding toxic ingredients (or contaminants) in their products is rapidly coming to an
end. Now, it�s only a matter of time before everybody�s products get tested by one or
more of these independent science groups.
The free market, in other words, has taken over the job of the FDA and is using good
science to conduct lifesaving research on the chemical composition of foods and supplements.
Our approach to food science testing and honest reporting
I want to assure the food and supplement manufacturers that I am personally dedicated to honest and
accurate reporting on the composition of your products, including recognizing you for your
quality control efforts. That�s why the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center, where
I serve as the executive director, has come up with the following streamlined reporting
format. The example shown below is a real product and the results are also real
As you can see from the sample chart shown above, we combine heavy metals testing with
other mass spec tests for pesticides and chemicals to arrive at a final algorithmic score for
each product. This honest, transparent scoring system does not generate unfounded alarm for
very tiny �trace� levels of chemicals, many of which are found in almost every non-organic
food product.
The Clean Label Project, I might suggest, should learn from this. They are reporting
that baby foods test �positive� for arsenic, but if that arsenic level is just 15 ppb,
for example, it poses no real danger to anyone (especially since it�s probably mostly organic
arsenic). With sensitive enough instruments, you can find parts per trillion of lead and
arsenic in almost everything, so when it comes to reporting heavy metals, concentrations
really matter. Eating 10 grams of arsenic at 15 ppb is very different from eating it
at 1.5 ppm (which is 100 times higher).
This is why, when food and supplement companies really look around and see how results are
being reported, they are going to vastly prefer my reporting approach because I don�t flag
products as being dangerous if they only contain trace levels that pose no real risk. Truth
be told, if the Clean Label Project were to test every single food item in the grocery
store, they would find trace arsenic in almost everything (if they�re running a sensitive
enough ICP-MS instrument), including fresh apples.
If you�re feeding your baby anything made from non-organic rice, you are likely poisoning
your baby
Note, above, that I sounded the alarm over toxic contaminants in rice protein four years
ago. What�s fascinating about the Clean Label Project�s findings is that most of
their �worst�-rated baby cereals are made with rice ingredients. Rice is a food material
that I�ve consistently found to be heavily polluted (when coming from China, but not
the USA, where rice is much cleaner). Here�s the list of the worst baby cereals from the
Clean Label Project:
Healthy Times Special Nourish Organic Brown Rice Cereal for Baby
Organix Raspberry & Banana Muesli Gerber DHA & Probiotic Rice Cereal with Vitablocks
Earth�s Best Organic Whole Grain Rice Cereal Parent�s Choice 1st Stage Rice Baby Cereal
This list does not surprise me, since I routinely see arsenic, pesticides and crazy toxic chemicals
in products made from rice. Interestingly, I�ve tested U.S.-grown rice vs. China-grown
rice and I�ve found that U.S. rice is very clean, including Lundberg rice from California.
But rice grown in China tends to be heavily contaminated, and because it�s so cheap
to produce in a polluted environment, a lot of China-grown rice ends up in U.S. products
made from rice� including baby food products. (Don�t act surprised.)
You can see all my heavy metals testing results, by the way, in my science book called Food
Forensics. There, I�ve listed the heavy metals test results for over 800 foods, spices
and even dog food products.
Here�s another whopper that terrifies the food industry, and I�m going to be launching
some shocking science on this next year: �Organic� in China is largely a fraud. USDA enforcement
of organic standards in China-grown food products is a complete joke. It is well known even
in the organic industry that China�s �organic� is to real organic what Harvey Weinstein is
to women�s dignity.
For those of you eating �Guten-free� products, by the way, you�re also eating a lot of
non-organic rice, which means you are gobbling down all sorts of heavy metals and toxic chemicals
while falsely believing you�re following a healthy diet. I�ll be testing many gluten-free
products very soon and releasing the results via Good Gopher Mail, a free email inbox that
bypasses censorship to bring you lab science results for food and supplement products.
To other independent labs: Make sure you�re reporting concentrations and not flagging
false alarms over non-significant findings
In contributing to the public discussion about clean foods, I want to encourage all independent
science groups and non-profits to carry out honest assessments of the concentrations of
various analytes when they are being reported. It�s very easy for a group like the Clean
Label Project to get a lot of press for reporting products that test �positive� for arsenic
or lead, but without reporting concentration data, the claim of testing �positive�
is scientifically lacking useful data.
That�s why we went with our new format that offers letter grades for heavy metals concentrations,
and provides four descriptive levels for pesticides and other chemicals:
CLEAR � None detected TRACE � Residual amounts detected
CONCERN � Significant amounts detected AVOID � Potentially dangerous amounts detected
Consumers, meanwhile, need to be educated to understand the difference between �trace�
vs. a dangerous concentration of a chemical. To say that some food contains one arsenic
element (i.e. tested �positive� for arsenic) is about as useful as saying a sample tested
positive for carbon. (Hint: There�s carbon in all foods, in nearly every molecule.)
What I�m concerned about is not so much the very tiny, trace levels of arsenic, pesticides
or even glyphosate that might be found in many products. Instead, I�m interested in
identifying those products that show extremely high levels (concentrations) of such items,
which might pose a genuine danger to public health and safety.
For example, I recently tested some �magical� pills from an Indian guru huckster and found
some of them to contain something like 400 � 800 ppm of mercury. (No, that�s not
a typo.) These pills are extremely dangerous and may cause extreme harm to consumers who
take them. (The woman who sent them to us said she kept vomiting each time after taking
them. The Indian guru told her she was �detoxing.�)
That�s why millions of people read Natural News and support our mission: We are rooting
out toxic, dangerous and heavily contaminated products across the industry while also highlighting
those products which test clean.
That�s why no honest food or supplement company should fear our science. We�re here
to confirm your clean products and spread the word, supporting your good work in sourcing
clean raw materials. The only companies that have anything to fear are those that refuse
to conduct laboratory testing or work to source clean raw materials. To those companies, sooner
or later the science is going to catch up with you.
Our goal for 2018 is to test over 1,000 off-the-shelf products for pesticides, heavy metals, industrial
chemicals and more. We�ll be publishing results at Good Gopher Mail (actually, we�ve
already started publishing there). To sign up for a free inbox there if you want to be
kept informed as we release our findings to the public.
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