Comment · Sun, July 23, 2023 · Nootropics Depot & Natrium Health
Do you recommend purchasing supplements from Nootropics Depot?
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HeisenBurgerJuice · 9 points
What they were answering
redcyanmagenta · 5 points
Still not 3rd party tested. Also expensive. Not that I’m necessarily recommending staying away though.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Nootropics Depot & Natrium Health
We absolutely do 3rd party testing. We regularly send samples to half a dozen other ISO accredited labs, literally every week. We spent over $10,000 just on 3rd party testing last month. Then other labs send us samples to test for them, as do other supplement brands. We are fully ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited, so other brands consider us the 3rd party lab. Yet we still send samples to other 3rd party labs ourselves. No one lab can do every methodology or method. Even Alkemist had to farm out heavy metals testing to a different lab till last year, because they didn't have an ICP-MS in-house. We don't either, so we send all our samples for heavy metals testing to a different ISO accredited lab down the street from us. An ICP-MS is a few hundred thousand dollars, and it uses a lot of caustic solvents in the process, so it doesn't make sense for us to add that machine when we have a good 3rd party lab down the street that can do it. Labs send samples to each other all the time for methods they can't do themselves. Other brands have actually posted COAs from different labs than us, but we actually did some of the testing on it, because the lab they used sent the sample to us to test. Not very many labs have the capability to do HP-TLC testing, but we do, so labs send us samples to test for them, then include our results on their COAs to their customers. We even temporarily took over all the product testing for a very large supplement brand here in town when their lab went down. Valid lab testing and quality control is everything to us.
As for your shilling claim, are you saying /u/HeisenBurgerJuice is our shill account? The guy that 13 days ago asked why doesn't everyone just buy everything from Swanson?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Supplements/comments/14vbh8g/why_choose_any_brand_over_swanson/
That's our super secret 4D chess shill account, that suggests people just buy from a competitor of ours that won't even share COAs? Big brain time shilling, I guess.