Chlorella - rumors and facts

For years we have heard rumors about chlorella being contaminated.
Here are some facts, at last: Laboratory tests on chlorella from 17 different sources.
http://www.naturalnews.com/039145_chlorella_heavy_metals_lab_tests.html

On February 26, elihme <[hidden email]> wrote:
> For years we have heard rumors about chlorella being contaminated.
> Here are some facts, at last: Laboratory tests on chlorella from 17 different sources.
> http://www.naturalnews.com/039145_chlorella_heavy_metals_lab_tests.html

Thanks for that, but I have serious doubts about that page.

First, the "winner" of the "study" happens to be the product that
this is being sold on this site -- a clear conflict of interest.

Also, the detection limit for mercury is too high at 0.05ppm.
Of course they detected no mercury -- they weren't testing
it closely enough.

Take a look at the prime chlorella website:
  http://www.primechlorella.com/faqs.php

According to THEIR testing, most chorella's on the market
test positive for mercury when the detection limit is 0.01ppm.
And theirs test clean 0.001ppm.

Marc

But again you have a conflict of interest;Prime Chlorella is selling chlorella too. Yes, it is true, Natural news sells products.So does Mercola. They both sell products because they couldn'tfind products that met their standards. Here's my opinion on this issue:If you want the highest quality product, go tosomeone/or a source-  who is SO picky, does run their OWNtests at independent labs, does their OWN researchand doesn't take someone's word for it....and willcomb the earth over to find ingredients as pure asthey can find. And these will also be the people/sources whoactually GO to the place the product is made, and check outthe entire process that goes into making/growing/harvesting/and processing the product. For the record, I have used both Mercola's and Natural Newsproducts, and have no complaints. No, I haven't used ALL of theirproducts, but a good many of them over the years. Blessings, Lizzie
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      On February 26, elihme [hidden email]> wrote:

> For years we have heard rumors about chlorella being contaminated.

> Here are some facts, at last: Laboratory tests on chlorella from 17 different sources.

> http://www.naturalnews.com/039145_chlorella_heavy_metals_lab_tests.html



Thanks for that, but I have serious doubts about that page.



First, the "winner" of the "study" happens to be the product that

this is being sold on this site -- a clear conflict of interest.



Also, the detection limit for mercury is too high at 0.05ppm.

Of course they detected no mercury -- they weren't testing

it closely enough.



Take a look at the prime chlorella website:

  http://www.primechlorella.com/faqs.php



According to THEIR testing, most chorella's on the market

test positive for mercury when the detection limit is 0.01ppm.

And theirs test clean 0.001ppm.



Marc



   
     

   
   






       

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On February 26, Elizabeth thode <[hidden email]> wrote:
> But again you have a conflict of interest; Prime Chlorella is selling chlorella too.

True, but at least the Prime Chlorella website isn't claiming to be the "end all"
in their findings.  And their approach is more towards educating the consumer,
rather than trying to mislead with bogus test results.

>  Here's my opinion on this issue:If you want the highest quality product,
>  go tosomeone/or a source-  who is SO picky, does run their OWNtests at
> independent labs, does their OWN researchand doesn't take someone's word for it

Okay, so let's put it this way then -- Prime Chlorella is so good that Dr.
Dietrich Klinghardt sells it under his own "BioPure" label.

Marc

Well, that's a good thing to know now, isn't it?
 And do we know that Mercola's isn't also the samebrand?  To: [hidden email]
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      On February 26, Elizabeth thode [hidden email]> wrote:

> But again you have a conflict of interest; Prime Chlorella is selling chlorella too.



True, but at least the Prime Chlorella website isn't claiming to be the "end all"

in their findings.  And their approach is more towards educating the consumer,

rather than trying to mislead with bogus test results.



>  Here's my opinion on this issue:If you want the highest quality product,

>  go tosomeone/or a source-  who is SO picky, does run their OWNtests at

> independent labs, does their OWN researchand doesn't take someone's word for it



Okay, so let's put it this way then -- Prime Chlorella is so good that Dr.

Dietrich Klinghardt sells it under his own "BioPure" label.



Marc



   
     

   
   






       

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On February 26, Elizabeth thode <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Well, that's a good thing to know now, isn't it?
>  And do we know that Mercola's isn't also the samebrand?  

I don't know -- companies that re-brand other companies
products don't generally advertise that fact, because the original
company usually sells the same product at a cheaper price.

And the only reason I "know" this information is because a
couple of years ago I had a bottle of Prime Chlorella and
a bottle of BioPure chlorella, and couldn't help but notice
that they appeared to be the same exact same product
(but with a different label design), and then I went online
and found all the descriptive information about both, and
found that there were too many identical sentences in
their descriptions for it to be a coincidence.

Marc

Hmmm... on this page
http://www.primechlorella.com/product-comparisons-heavy-metal-levels.php
they say that Prime Chlorella has "0.102 ppm (lead and mercury)".

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