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ConsumerLab

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ConsumerLab

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ConsumerLab is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 05, 2022 and October 26, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “The two biggest sites I know of in this space are LabDoor and ConsumerLab”; “The same people are positive about ConsumerLab”; “ConsumerLab checked the raspberry flavor”. It most often appears alongside Ashwagandha, Ayurvedic, Bacopa.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: October 05, 2022
  • Last seen: October 26, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

How Trustworthy Are Supplements?
October 05, 2022 · Original source
A few companies do Consumer Reports style analyses of supplement brands. For a fee (or sometimes for free, supported by ads), they will analyze supplements and tell you what they find. The two biggest sites I know of in this space are LabDoor and ConsumerLab.
But as long as we look at their raw data, we should be able to avoid any rating problems. And the same people are positive about ConsumerLab. So I think looking at data from both these companies could be a good way to figure out how accurate supplement labels are.
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ConsumerLab analyzes twelve magnesium brands. Eleven pass and one fail. The failure had only about 80% as much magnesium as claimed. The brand that Labdoor said had 3x the claimed amount of magnesium was completely fine according to ConsumerLab, although Labdoor checked the neutral flavor and ConsumerLab checked the raspberry flavor. The company involved claims to have done an investigation and found that their supplement had the amount they claimed, so it’s possible Labdoor was in error here.
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Highlights From The Comments On Supplement Labeling
October 26, 2022 · Original source
The LabDoor and ConsumerLab analyses I mentioned in this post also checked for heavy metals; most of the products were at undetectable levels, and none were at dangerous ones. Still, this was just one or two dozen, and maybe a product needs some level of reputability to even make it to LabDoor, so let’s look at Diddly’s links.
At this point, we believe Illuminate Labs has an undisclosed partnership with ConsumerLab to recommend them and attack us.
Consumerlab is a lot better in my experience. They seem to actually be trying to find the truth on products. I disagree with some of their metrics/methodologies, but those are minor in comparison.