Comment · Tue, September 27, 2016
Bromantane, oh Bromantane, where art thou Bromantane?
What they were answering
somebodybettercomes · 3 points
This is very interesting, thank you so much for taking these kinds of things this seriously. It seems weird they won't share their methods, I don't understand how anyone can trust their results to be accurate if the processes which produced the results are secret. It's basically just saying "trust me", and that's not how science works.
I'm curious... have you ever tried to test the labs accuracy? Like, send them a sample you have intentionally contaminated to see if they return an accurate result? I imagine once you have your testing methods developed you could potentially expose shady labs that use undisclosed methods and produce results which do not match your labs results using documented methods... maybe shake up the testing industry a bit by exposing the bad actors.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Yes, that's exactly right. Before I got more into analytical chemistry, I just trusted that the 3rd party labs knew what they were doing, and that I could trust their results. After all, that's what everyone does, right? If a 3rd party lab told me something was pure, it must be pure. However, when I started building up our analytical testing lab, and speaking to qualified analytical chemists in the field, I realized it was much more complex than I had thought. So I hired an analytical chemist, and met with specialists from a bunch of different analytical equipment manufacturers; so we could build our capabilities up to be able to analyze things in-house, and satisfy my need to ensure we were selling products that were objectively the best they could be.
We have sent off to labs things we thought were not pure, and had tested impure in our lab, to see what they came back with. Labs that did not give us results we trusted we just struck off our list of ones to use. However, we can't really expose them. There is a reason I stopped openly calling companies out for doing shady stuff, and it's because of the risk of them coming after us, and trying to screw our operations up because we called them out. I can't risk becoming a target anymore. We've already been attacked too many times, and almost went out of business because of it. Trust me, I would love to spend all day calling shady companies out. However, I am responsible for too many people to risk blowback now. So we keep advancing ourselves, and openly communicating with the community about things going on, but we stop short of directly calling specific companies out.