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by sacnoradhq 1092 days ago
The integrity of health and wellness products is always suspect. The MMS people are especially wingnuts.

It makes me think small-scale sales of spices, compounds, and ingredients on Amazon are at risk for adulteration.

Perhaps what we need is a simplified bluetooth mass spectrometer device with an app setup for testing purity of powdered substances from foods to medications. This seems like a ready-made Kickstarter project an Ivy/Pac-12 engineering bio+ee team could handle. MEMS devices using cheap IR photonics are in the pipe (no pun intended). Gas chrom is like listening to music on vinyl.