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Response to Consumer Reports “Dirty Dozen” on Colloidal Silver

Sunday, July 22, 2012 18:06
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Consumer Reports August 2010: Nutritional Supplements "Dirty Dozen"

Where are the Bodies and Where are the “Blue People?”

This month’s Consumer Reports magazine displays an article on what they call the ‘Dirty Dozen’ 12 nutritional supplements which include Colloidal Silver. In the article, CR says colloidal silver “has a possible risk of: Bluish skin, mucous membrane discoloration, neurological problems, kidney damage”.  Nowhere do they offer any proof. None.

If colloidal silver is a health hazard, where are the bodies? Where are the blue people?  

Think about it; for simplicity, let’s say that there a 300 million people in the USA.  Arguably, there are 10 million people who take Colloidal Silver daily.  That means that one in 30 people you know or meet use colloidal silver daily.  One in 30 people.

In your entire lifetime, how many people have you met who are blue?  

Probably none.

How many people have you heard of who died using Colloidal Silver?  

Probably None.  

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Here is proof from the United States Government National Poison Data System

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 19, 2010

(OMNS, January 19, 2010) “There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.”

“The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.”

“Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.”

“Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multi-mineral supplements"

[In 2008] No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements.  Period."

 “61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is "one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking."

So let’s see if the facts bear out.     

Fact: Independent FDA-certified lab tests demonstrate zero toxicity in NutraSilver® nano particles.

Fact: The US EPA has been regulating colloidal silver nano particles for over 40 years.  How many fatalities or "blue people" did this produce? None.

Fact: According to the report "Pharmaceutical Drugs caused 106,000 DEATHS in 2008, while there were ZERO deaths from Nutritional Supplements."  When the light shines on facts, the truth comes out. If pharmaceutical drugs caused 106,00 deaths and nutritional supplements caused no death, which do you think needs to be exposed to the public? Drugs or nutritional supplements? You be the judge.

What is the real agenda of Consumer Reports?  It is hard to say, but a prestigious publication like CR is seriously in danger of losing their credibility with unsubstantiated reports like this one that fly in the face a substantiated facts and plain old "common sense".  Any aware consumer will want to know the facts and will not depend upon a publication that merely makes unsubstantiated claims and accusations.

The Consumer Reports article is poorly researched, unsupported and CR's claims about the 'dirty dozen' have no basis in fact. Could this article possibly be the result of Big Pharma trying to sway consumers through a well-respected publication away from safe and effective dietary supplements towards toxic and deadly pharmaceutical drugs?  Consumer Reports has certainly lost me as someone who believes what they say. Unbiased? You decide!

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  • don’t buy from this guy, for what he charges you for an ounce of colloidal silver , you can make 100 gallons at home!

  • The Most Expensive Colloidal Silver Actually Saves You $100s Comparatively

    You’ll be shocked at how awesome this is. It truly is an innovation you can feel in your wallet, right where it counts.

    At 3600 ppm, NutraSilver is potent enough to kill the worst viral, fungal and bacterial infections, so you’ve got that covered and you won’t be forced to compromise potency to save a little money.

    That’s great, but coming in at a whopping 30 mL per bottle, an entire ounce, it seems like this powerful solution is expensive drop for drop. Well, if you were comparing one bottle of NutraSilver to one bottle of the leading colloidal silver, it sure would be. It would be three times as expensive in some cases.

    If you’ve used colloidal silver before, chances are you’re used to a 10 ppm or 20 ppm colloidal silver. That’s pretty typical. An 8 ounce bottle of the ionic silver costs between $12 and $25.

    But you can do much better with NutraSilver. Here’s how:
    JUST ONE BOTTLE OF NUTRASILVER…
    MAKES 46 EIGHT OUNCE BOTTLES OF 10 PPM COLLOIDAL SILVER

    Buy one bottle of NutraSilver and add just 13 drops to an 8 ounce bottle of distilled or filtered water and you have a very powerful 10 ppm solution. The cool thing is that there are 600 drops in one 30 mL bottle of NutraSilver. Which means that you can make 46 different 8 ounce bottles of 10 ppm colloidal silver with one bottle of NutraSilver.

    If you like that 10 ppm dilution, then with your 46 bottles packed into a single one ounce bottle of NutraSilver, how long will that last you? That might mean you could technically have a 4-year supply in just one bottle of NutraSilver… and you’d pay less than $1 for each bottle. That’s budget conscious right there.

    So what’s the magic number? How much could one bottle of NutraSilver save you if you’re an avid user of colloidal silver?

    Let’s be conservative and say you could get an 8-ounce bottle of 10 ppm colloidal silver for $12 bottle. In that case:
    NutraSilver Saves You At Least $552 Comparatively

  • Where is the certified report you claim to have PROVING 3,600 ppm???
    You said you have it, where is it? why not post it???

  • Anonymous

    Consumer Reports is the most legitimate source for knowledge of consumer goods that’s ever existed. They rely SOLELY on donations from people and NEVER accept corporate funds. They are through and through above reproach and you’ve really shot yourself in the foot posting this.

    • Thanks for stating your position.

      Would you care to share some facts to specifically refute in this article? . I would love to see them.

      I, too believed that CR was beyound reproach, until I investigated their article.

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