Clay
“Do you really know what you ate today?” Natural Check, LLC dares to answer this sometimes unnerving question by making the science of water and food testing easily accessible.
This innovative startup company, and member of the TowsonGlobal Incubator, provides fast, affordable and reliable methods to screen for unacceptable compounds in the food and water supplies. For example, the company has developed a lab-based test for the detection of artificial growth hormones in beef and offers a rapid field test for antibiotics in milk. Additional tests are under development in partnership with labs from around the world.
NaturalCheck also supplies water testing kits and is striving to build community awareness through city-specific “What’s in my water…” Facebook fan pages created for cities like Baltimore, DC, Los Angeles, and New York. In addition, the company offers the BRIX Meter, which helps determine the nutritional quality of fruits and vegetables.
Similarly, NaturalCheck, through its AuthentiCheck division, is on the forefront, developing and distributing new technologies to protect manufacturers, retailers and consumers from often unsafe counterfeit products. The technologies offer two important services—authenticating products and tracking and tracing the movement of products through the supply chain—and are suitable for textiles, packaging, pharmaceuticals, and many other products.
NaturalCheck was founded by Larry Bohlen, former NASA engineer, international environmental advocate and food safety entrepreneur. His experience has taught him that testing and sharing the results can be a powerful tool for facilitating real change.
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Can you test for Gluten? I have Celiac and need a simple, fast, cheap way to test my food, especially when eating out.
NaturalCheck does not have a gluten test, but CEO Larry Bohlen knows of one and promises to get in touch with more information.
Below are links to two gluten tests I know about. In general, I think you would use these to test a favorite product, then return to that product again if it tested negative:
http://glutenfreecooking.about.com/od/glutenfreecookingbasics/p/ezglutentestkit.htm
and
http://www.celiactravel.com/gluten-test-kit.html