Ghoul
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You can't really filter heavy metal with a filter for what I have understood.
But I could be wrong I'm not really an expert at all on these matters
Metals can be in dissolved or particulate form. Filters can remove particulate metal, which of course your .22um sterilizing filter handles in home brewing. .10um would remove even more metal contamination, if you homebrewers can figure out how to make it work. Maybe multi stage, .8um to .45um to .10um. There are multi layered filters to do this.
The dissolved heavy metals will be, for all practical UGL or homebrew purposes, impossible to remove. Pharma can do it with ion exchange systems.
Luckily heavy metals continuously accumulate and aren't flushed out with "Liv52", so they'll be safely sequestered away in our brain and other organs. Please reconsider cremation, you wouldn't want to contribute to toxic air.
The only way I see to assess the amount of dissolved heavy metals is to brew, filter, and retest to see what remains, but perhaps the chemists have another method.
The carrier oil itself, if not true pharma grade, could very likely contain heavy metals as well (and low grade MCT is known for significant pesticide and herbicide contamination as well). I certainly expect some labs are opting for food grade oils, or worse(much worse) After all, the sterilizing filter at the end prevents serious bacterial infection and masks plenty of production "sins". That's why the "I've been injecting and nothing bad happened..." safety standard is bullshit. Maybe some built up lead poisoning is compromising logic.
This report directly implicates substandard raws, made using unconventional ingredients (compared to pharma) as a source of contamination.
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