Ya know, people are going off because of less than micron differences, and to 
be blunt, it really ticks me off.  Yes, I'm happy that people can get so 
detailed in their size estimates, but you know what?  3 nine volt batteries 
connected to two pieces of silver will make small particles, medium particles 
and LARGE particles, and you know what?  The silver made that way will work!  I 
get testimonials every other day from people saying how colloidal silver made 
the above way has cured them of this and that (lyme, various types of cancer, 
cold sores, fevers, warts, chicken pox, the list goes on and on).  So for all 
you people who are reading the hemming and hawing about getting your particle 
size exactly this size and that size,  I say to you, don't worry about it!  In 
fact, I will go further and say that it is my sincere belief that one needs to 
have a full range of particle sizes in order to attack various sized pathogens! 
 If one is limiting their particle size, then logically, one is limiting the 
pathogens that will be affected.  There's nothing scientific about my opinion, 
it's just common sense (again, in my opinion).  Sorry for the rant, but every 
once in awhile I just feel I need to jump in and speak up for us simple folk  ;)

Yours in health,
James Allison


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Ladendorf 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:04 PM
  Subject: Re: CS>Buyer Beware


  Trem, 

  I appreciate you taking the time to explain your side of the story and I'll 
take your word that you were not trying to be deceptive. I hope you can 
understand why I felt the way I did. Maybe I'm just not trusting enough or 
maybe I'm just paranoid. Maybe that's cause some guy just tried to sell me a 
piece of property and "forgot" to tell me that it wasn't buildable cause it was 
in a flood plane and cost me a few hundred dollars and a whole bunch of time. 

  Paul 

   Trem wrote: 

    Hi Paul...and the list,

    Time to clear the air a bit.  Paul is speaking about us.

    Let me give you some information as to how this came about.  We had Stephen 
Quinto (Natural Immunogenics) do an analysis of our CS using a transmission 
electron microscope.  He supplied us with several 5" X 7" photos of the 
results.  These photos have a scale attached as a reference.  See 
http://silvergen.com/toppage2.htm   As you can see, there is very even 
distribution of the particles and also much uniformity of particle size.  
Stephen's report indicated there were some larger particles in the mix.  
However it was apparent to me that the majority of particles were between the 
range of .001 or less and .005 microns.  Using a dial caliper to measure the 
smallest ones on the photos and using the scale provided by Stephen showed me 
the smallest particles were less than .001 microns so I put .0006 microns as 
the minimum size in our description next ! to the photos even though the report 
indicated .001 as minimum.

    When Paul called for information I wasn't sure what the report stated and 
said so.  It had been so long since we had gotten the report I wasn't sure what 
it said.  I told Paul to call Stephen if he wanted to because Stephen had told 
me our CS was second only to his in quality.  That statement had carried a lot 
of weight for me since Stephens product is about as good as one can get as far 
as I'm concerned.  

    Paul called Stephen and was told there were some large particles in our 
mix.  That is a fact.  He had pulled the original report and read from it.  
However what is not clear is the fact that there were very few larger 
particles.  The vast majority are in the extremely small range.  To be honest, 
when we made the website I didn't feel it necessary to point out the fact there 
were a few larger size particles when most of the mix was in a consistently 
small range.  I guess if I was marketing my daughter as a bride I wouldn't 
advertise the fact she had a wart since it would have little bearing on her 
overall qualities.  After all it's the whole picture that counts.   As a side 
note Frank Key recently did an analysis of our CS for a customer of ours.  His 
analysis was that our CS was 99.97% ionic and .05 PPM particulate out of 21.5 
PPM total.  Hopefully you can see my reasoning to not mention t! here were a 
few larger particles when they don't really matter because there just aren't 
many there.  If one directs a laser pointer through our CS it is obvious there 
are no large visible particles.  The Tyndall is very weak.

    I also used the word "typical" in describing our particle size.  Had I said 
this is the particle size....period.... that would have been untruthful.

    Anyway, after looking at the report again and using the calipers again I 
decided it would be best to change the minimum size from .0006 to .001 microns 
even though they still look that small to me in the photos.  Stephen tells me 
they use a similar method to size the particles.  And really, it's splitting 
hairs when we're talking about the small difference here so I changed our 
information to reflect the minimum size on the report.

    We try to be as straightforward in our descriptions and information as 
possible, however it appears I was not completely honest in not pointing out a 
small anomaly.  Hopefully we won't be thought of too badly because of it.

    I also tried to call Paul yesterday at his place of business and his home 
to explain what I was going to do about our size information but he didn't 
return my call.  

    Thanks for your time.  

    Trem
    www.silvergen.com




    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Paul Ladendorf 
      To: [email protected] 
      Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:59 PM
      Subject: CS>Buyer Beware


      I wanted to share an experience with the list. Yesterday I was on a 
website which touted the small particle size of silver made by their generator 
as proven by a lab analysis to show it's superiority. When I read the figures I 
was very, very impressed. I contacted the manufacturer to ask for a copy of the 
assay (certificate of analysis). The person responded: "There's a picture right 
on my website". Well I was looking for a certificate and a picture doesn't say 
anything about particle size. Right away I felt like the person was trying to 
sidestep the issue. Again I asked: Don't you have a certificate. "I don't think 
I got one" was the response. This time I was really skeptical that someone 
would pay to have their product analyzed and not get a certificate of analysis. 
They told me to contact the lab that it was tested at. No problem as this was a 
company that I do business with currently. The man at the lab who tested the 
product ga! ve me a differe! nt set of numbers than this person told me and had 
on their website...larger numbers. Now the numbers didn't look so impressive - 
still good mind you. I called the manufacturer back and told him what the lab 
said. "He must have made a mistake. Let me call him and I'll call you back." 
Never heard back so I called the man at the lab today to confirm the numbers 
again. He told me he hadn't gotten a call from the mfg. I asked him, "Didn't 
this mfg. get a certificate?" I asked. "He certainly did, he paid for it." was 
their response. Next I go back to the mfg's site and see the numbers changed to 
much closer figures (still not accurate) to what the lab gave me. The sad thing 
is that I'm sure this mfg's generator is excellent quality as others have 
attested to and I probably would have done business with them had I not found 
this "error". I wonder how many other people saw those numbers and bought 
without verifying, thinking that they were ge! tting something b! etter than 
what they got. Buyer Beware! 




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