Comment · Tue, June 25, 2019 · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
Third party testing was said to be unnecessary for synthetic supplements.
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automata33 · 4 points
I was hoping to get heavy metal results for products from NootropicsDepot, but apparently they don't test synthetic products:
" Thank you for reaching out to us. Unfortanatly, we do not test for heavy metals in synthetics like "Aniracetam or Oxiracetam". The reason being is that synthetic products do not need heavy metal testing because they are not grown in soil, unlike natural products. We test natural products for heavy metals because we don't know what kind of soil the plant is being grown in and what the plant is absorbing from the soil. Plants and other natural biomaterials can have trace amounts of heavy metals in their composition, thus making it necessary to perform additional testing on these products. "
Also the results for the supplements they do test only show "<2ppm" on lead which seems too imprecise, considering how detrimental lead can be a low doses. Is this really a good reason to not do third party testing? Virtually all products that provide an accurate certificate of analysis have a measurable and meaningful amount of lead shown. Is imprecise testing for heavy metal in natural products and no testing at all for synthetic products really ok?
Edit: Seems lik…
What they were answering
Direct reply to the original post — see the thread post above.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
My support team was incorrect in that response. We absolutely do heavy metals testing on synthetics. Not that we ever find anything wrong on that front. Synthetics almost never have heavy metals present in any meaningful amounts. They are right in saying that plant extracts are what you really need to watch for heavy metals content, due to their ability to absorb them from the soil.
I have to run to a legal meeting right now, but I will give a more comprehensive response when I get back. However, we absolutely have heavy metals testing on aniracetam, and it is nowhere near 2ppm. You are looking at our spec sheet maximum allowable number, not the COA. The last aniracetam batch was 0.025ppm for lead.