lab testing what you need to know to make sure that the food and products you're

using are safe.

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by John Fagan from HRI Labs who is an expert in this area is going to enlighten you about all the subtleties you may not have been previously aware.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, John.

Oh, it's a pleasure to be here.

Real pleasure.

So Wipe you can give us a little history of your journey and how you came to be

proficient in lab testing and the director of a lab and what HR labs is all about.

Oh, thanks. Well, just in a one phrase what HRI is about Health Research

Institute labs is making the invisible visible,

giving you the ability to see into what is in your food and into your environment, all of these things.

And where I came from is that I have a, I studied biochemistry and molecular biology at Cornell University, I got my PhD from them.

And from there I went to the National Institutes of Health for a decade and then into academia where I did cancer research using actually

using genetic engineering as a research tool and I got concerned about genetic engineering and especially what it was doing to our food.

And as a result, I created the first lab for GMO testing in America and also developed labs in Europe,

in Japan, and trained laboratories in 17 other countries.

And what this did was to make GMOs visible.

Before that testing was there,

nobody could tell whether those soybeans or that corn was

genetically engineered or not.

But after that testing was available, people had a choice. And we want to do the same thing for two things.

One of the baddies, and two are the goodies. The baddies are all the pesticides and herbicides and other environmental

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