Lab Testing Amanita
- Testing for amanita is in the infancy stages since each cap can vary in ibotenic acid and muscimol content.
- We generally only do heavy metal testing for amanita, as muscimol and ibotenic acid are notoriously unstable and are very small molecules. I’m not a chemist, but from my understanding, it’s the instability and the fact that they both elute before the injection peak that makes them difficult to test. Even in the mushroom itself, the organic compounds – we don’t get tests done because HPLC testing (which is what is used in any commercial testing facility) won’t give accurate results. This is pretty well known across the industry, but it certainly makes things tricky, particularly in our position.
Amanita Quality Insurance
- Our suppliers dehydrate the caps at 100F until they are dry, but not to the point where they will crack during shipping.
- We work with our foragers to make sure they are harvesting Amanita far away from civilization.
- We sift through the mushrooms when they get to the facility and remove any bad ones
- We store them properly
- We lab test them
- We love on them
- We radiation with a Gieger counter Test them
Lab Testing Blue Lotus
- No one really does it.
- There haven’t been reliable standards for it, although it looks like that might be changing here soon. We’re actually looking at getting some lotus tested in the next couple of weeks.
Lotus Quality Assurance
- Work closely with small family farms in Thailand and SriLanka
- They grow lotus on ponds and harvest the flowers sustainably
