Hi Lisa,
I will ask the obvious question. There has been speculation on some
threads, but i will ask you directly :
What led you to publish the results of your lab tests on 5P liquids ( with as much detail as you are able to provide considering the legal situation ).
Thank You.
We removed the product from sale the moment we received the test results from the lab, and immediately started fielding questions about why it had suddenly disappeared from our site. Running as a separate sideline from the
five pawns issue in particular, we were preparing an article to explain our testing protocol, and the actions we've been taking for the last few years. We felt it was important that the article was clear that this protocol had real purpose and that we were prepared to refuse to stock liquids, and stop stocking liquids if at any time they failed to meet our "diketone free" requirements and that we had already done so on multiple occasions in the past.
We did not name the actual products we'd removed from sale at this point, which of course only lead to requests to disclose which liquids we had removed for this reason.
By this time, nearly 8 weeks had passed since we first received the Five Pawns results, and notified them. No action had been taken, no public disclosure had been made, and they would not discuss the matter with us in writing, apart from authorising their UK distributor to accept the return of all the product for a complete refund.
All throughout this time, we'd been uncomfortably keeping this information to ourselves. We received advice from several industry experts including Dr Farsalinos, and all advice was to publish what we had, because it was in the public interest.
So, in response to this clamour for information, and in accordance with our discomfort at keeping the information quiet up to this point, we named all those liquids we had removed because they contained or were suspected of containing either Diacetyl, Acetyl Propionyl, or both, and the list was not limited to Five Pawns liquids.
Most of the rest of what happened is common knowledge.