Where can I find the link? Do I need to submit my email to see the "openly published results"?
Wow, thanks for the heads up, website. I'll throw out my stock of these right away.
Do you have an arbitrary date we should use to ignore items for testing?
Specifically, rice seems to contain a good deal of arsenic (https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-muc...) and I've been interested for a while in trying to find some that has the least, as I eat a lot of rice.
BTW I love Consumer Reports.
IIRC2, don't buy rice from land formerly used to grow cotton. Because calcium arsenate was used to kill the boll weevil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Weevil_Eradication_Progra...
Vanilla (high): https://laboratory.love/plasticlist/59 Strawberry (medium): https://laboratory.love/plasticlist/60
0: https://i.imgur.com/L1LVar1.png
Edit: I guess that should impact the Substitutes category, though, and not the Phthalates category.
I thought it was an exaggeration so I checked. It's actually even worse:
EU is 0.2 ng/kg body weight and US is 50 µg/kg body weight. So the US limit is 250,000 times higher.
Often desired something like this so thank you for making this happen.
https://laboratory.love
Last year PlasticList discovered that 86% of food products they tested contain plastic chemicals—including 100% of baby food tested. The EU just lowered their "safe" BPA limit by 20,000x. Meanwhile, the FDA allows levels 100x higher than what Europe considers safe.
This seemed like a solvable problem.
Laboratory.love lets you crowdfund independent testing of specific products you actually buy. Think Consumer Reports meets Kickstarter, but focused on detecting endocrine disruptors in your yogurt, your kid's snacks, whatever you're curious about.
Here's how it works: Find a product (or suggest one), contribute to its testing fund, get detailed lab results when testing completes. If a product doesn't reach its funding goal within 365 days, automatic refund. All results are published openly. Laboratory.love uses the same methodology as PlasticList.org, which found plastic chemicals in everything from prenatal vitamins to ice cream. But instead of researchers choosing what to test, you do.
The bigger picture: Companies respond to market pressure. Transparency creates that pressure. When consumers have data, supply chains get cleaner.
Technical details: Laboratory.love works with ISO 17025-accredited labs, test three samples from different production lots, detect chemicals down to parts per billion. The testing protocol is public.
You can browse products, add your own, or just follow specific items you're curious about: https://laboratory.love