Here's the test on NMS:
https://www.nmslabs.com/tests/3427SPNMS does not list consumers as their customers, and none of their customers make medical decisions based on their lab work.
NMS claims CLIA certification. This is the older law where labs self-certify compliance. Congress left CLIA in place alongside FDA IVD regulations to protect small pharmacists, but obviously Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp run fleets through that loophole, and most labwork is CLIA-certified, not FDA-approved.
Paying to test for highly-prevalent, possibly-toxic, pervasively-feared, under-studied chemicals is an ideal recipe for fleecing people with no real benefit.
Perhaps worse, if people get burned because it is corrupt, it puts people off trusting good providers. This is not just "Hey I made an app/web-site to track your period! How cool is that?" Some chemicals may be toxic, but so is fear.
So yes, it's super important to enable people to concretely understand their risks, protect themselves, and advocate for health policies. All the more reason to do it right.
So I hope you know what you're doing. Somehow the website needs to convey the organization behind it, and why that organization can be trusted to do this right, and not to mislead people.
NMS does not list consumers as their customers, and none of their customers make medical decisions based on their lab work.
NMS claims CLIA certification. This is the older law where labs self-certify compliance. Congress left CLIA in place alongside FDA IVD regulations to protect small pharmacists, but obviously Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp run fleets through that loophole, and most labwork is CLIA-certified, not FDA-approved.
Paying to test for highly-prevalent, possibly-toxic, pervasively-feared, under-studied chemicals is an ideal recipe for fleecing people with no real benefit.
Perhaps worse, if people get burned because it is corrupt, it puts people off trusting good providers. This is not just "Hey I made an app/web-site to track your period! How cool is that?" Some chemicals may be toxic, but so is fear.
So yes, it's super important to enable people to concretely understand their risks, protect themselves, and advocate for health policies. All the more reason to do it right.
So I hope you know what you're doing. Somehow the website needs to convey the organization behind it, and why that organization can be trusted to do this right, and not to mislead people.