Reddit Nootropics Testing (Next Round)

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 0 pts

How would you like to help?

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 0 pts

Do you have testing equipment? We started a fund specifically for this testing, so we can send the samples to an unbiased 3rd party lab for analysis.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 2 pts

The equipment used for testing is very expensive. Probably at least $25,000 to start basic testing. It's better if we just send it to an existing lab. Nootropics Depot has started building their own lab. They have helpe

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 12 pts

Who says I have not already ordered from them in advance? Also, what are they going to do, stop all shipments immediately? We also have the option of testing existing product that has been shipped. We can get samples fr

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 2 pts

It's not about the suppliers willfully scamming people. It's about them not testing their incoming product. China sends fake nootropics all the time. Who knows, perhaps the wholesalers in China are not even aware they ar

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 1 pts

Sure, there could be. However, the bacopa plant is known for accumulating lead. If producers are not careful about the part of the plant they use to create the extract, lead levels can be high.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 8 pts

Well the testing costs money. We can't just test everybody's products for them for free. Ideally the individual vendors would pay to test their own products, that way we don't run into issues like the Cerebral Health or

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 0 pts

Yeah, it accumulates from the water and soil. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1108395&resultClick=3 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18728265?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 3 pts

I just estimated a cheap FTIR. A lot more would be needed for a full lab.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 1 pts

It can be an option. However, Nootropics Depot works with me all the time for testing. They have their own lab. I highly doubt they would send out fake adrafinil. Have you used adrafinil before?

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 5 pts

If you want to, I can arrange it. We use Colmeric Analyticals for our 3rd party testing. I have called a lot of labs in the US, and they are the cheapest and easiest to work with.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 1 pts

That is one I have not heard of yet. Are there any threads with people talking about this happening that I can read?

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 2 pts

The small ones. They told me that was the India only version. However, they are selling it right now on their US-based Amazon.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 3 pts

I see the point of this testing program to find bad products. That way vendors will be more likely to start testing their own stuff, for fear that we will test it and find out it is not pure, or something else entirely.

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 1 pts

You can send Paypal donations to [email protected] We thought about perhaps doing a crowdfunding site somewhere down the line. Thanks for the support!

Comment · Sat, January 25, 2014 · 2 pts

We are just going to run a heavy metals analysis on them.

Comment · Sun, January 26, 2014 · 1 pts

Colin is the owner. Just tell him that Paul sent you to get some nootropic testing going. He usually needs about 20 pills of each for the testing, that way he can average the weights and estimate dosage per pill. But he'