Natural Calm Magnesium

This is an update to an earlier post. ��

Consumers Lab is not a lab but a media company and has no lab facilities of their own. The manufacturer does check each batch to ensure quality control. The ConsumerLabs report and the way they conducted and handle it has caused me to lose respect for them. In my opinion, they are more interested in sensationalizing information in the interest of selling me a report than actually trying to help me with factual information.

The manufacturer of Natural Calm decided to have an independent report done by a third party, specializing in Prop 65 compliance. The purpose of this report was to have an outside company review and give findings for what the company already knew: their products are Prop 65 compliant. An independent company, ���Environ��� created a report using 3 different labs. The conclusion of the report was that, ���At suggested use, a person would not be exposed to lead levels requiring a warning as stated by California proposition 65.��� This is a professional way of saying the product is compliant with the most stringent heavy metal standards in the world. It is also worth noting that this report was over 50 pages, and included all information, testing methodology and test results. Had ConsumerLabs requested such information from the company, they would have happily provided such, rather than embarrassing their own credibility by launching an unfounded email accusing the company of having ���holes��� in their report.

Two of the three labs could not detect any lead. I.e. if there is lead in the product, it is below what their equipment was able to test. The first lab���s lowest detection level is 0.5ppm (parts per million). The second lab���s lowest detection level is 0.05 ppm; 10 times more accurate. All of their tests could not detect lead in the samples, i.e. the reported level was <0.05 ppm. I am not sure what the detection level of the third lab was, but it did detected lead at 0.02 and 0.03 ppm. All three labs used Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) and Mass Spectroscopy (MS) to test the samples submitted.

Six different products were tested; Natural Calm Plain, each of the three flavors, Calm plus Calcium Plain and its Raspberry-Lemon flavored formulation.

So in conclusion, we believe there is no lead issue in Natural Calm. Heavy metals should be a concern to all of us, from cooking with aluminium pans, to mercury in fish but because today���s lab equipment is able to show infinitesimal results, we will always be able to find minute amounts of heavy metals in almost everything we test.

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