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Questionable integrity and credibility of this company
I have used many HealthForce products over the years because I trusted the purity of the product and integrity of the company and the founder. HealthForce products are marketed as "beyond organic" (TruGanic)and are more expensive than much of the competition. I believed, from their marketing, that this was because they use higher quality, better sourced ingredients than the competition.
So I was dismayed to recently come across the heavy metals testing of Warrior Food Extreme published online by Natural News Labs that was conducted in early 2014. That lab analysis of several brands of rice protein powders showed HealthForce Warrior Food contains high levels of heavy metals, and the brown rice protein in Warrior Food was sourced from China. I was also very surprised to see in the lab testing that some less expensive brands performed better than HealthForce Warrior Food. Very surprising considering HealthForce's hype about their "beyond organic" product quality.
HealthForce has since changed their brown rice protein supplier to a non-China supplier and cleaned up this product, but the fact remains they did so only after being caught selling a product with high levels of heavy metals. Who knows for how many years Warrior Food with it's heavy metals was sold to unsuspecting customers, including pregnant women. HealthForce could have done the right thing early on and chosen not to use an inferior supplier for Warrior Food or they could have chosen to simply not produce Warrior Food because a high quality rice protein supplier couldn't be found. But they didn't, and they chose to make and sell a product with unacceptable levels of heavy metals. Now I feel like my trust has been betrayed and I'm seriously questioning the integrity and purity of the other HealthForce products that I've used for years.
More info on all this....
1) Google "natural news labs healthforce protein" for the rice protein lab test results.
2) Google "healthforce mike adams response" for HealthForce's response to the Natural News lab tests.
3) Google "can you trust warrior food from healthforce" for Natural News Labs rebuttal of HealthForce's response to their lab tests.
February 2015 · Health and Household