I read through some of MP's commentary, and hopefully this will both clarify some inconsistencies, and alleviate several concerns surrounding our cultivation, manufacturing, and encapsulation process.
Firstly, MP is correct in one respect: Many of these parent herbs have unusually long gestation and cultivation processes, requiring a priori growth and cultivation - that is, intended growth before our interests in that plant arrive. That being said, there are many ways around this, and two of them are our primary method: Firstly, it is possible to purchase previously gestated plants, and move them to our facility which shares similar soil conditions; secondly, it is also possible to sub-contract native Indian farms which are already growing said plant - in such cases, the plants are grown in the natural process, transported to our facility, and extracted there.
Obviously, this leads us into MP's next postulate: Our land ownership in India. To address this in the briefest manner possible, let me say the following:
a) We manufacture GMP in India, in our facilities there.
b) We also own harvesting land, which carries out the actions detailed above.
c) Our shipping facility is located in Texas, and we do not manufacture of process there in any way - it is merely a shipping facility.
In this respect, we know exactly where, how, and when our ingredients are grown, harvested, and encapsulated. There are very few and far between - possibly no - companies who can claim that level of inclusivity with the production of their ingredients. We can ensure quality because we have owned the raws from start to finish!
Thirdly, the rarity of the ingredients in question.vMP quoted the considerable profitability of the raw ingredients for the Cashmerean Government (Kashmirean, I believe); in that respect, allow me to add some context here: Kashmir is a region in India bitterly divided between India, Pakistan, and China. The region in which wild Tribulus plants primarily grow, is in the Indian controlled Kashmir and Jammu - further, the 'Cashmerean Government' in the reference MP cited, with almost certainty is referring to the smaller Governmental body of the specific Kashmir Valley therein: A small mountainous region.
In that light, a 'considerable profit' for that region is minute by western standards, and is arrived at primarily by the collection of wild Tribulus plants; while an earnest and honest effort by MP, it is necessarily inaccurate and decontextualized. Remember, no argument is valid without the proper context. In addressing this concern for unavailability, we purchased a massive supply of Trib. A., plants for further cultivation and harvesting, as well as purchasing supplies of collected wild plants.
In respects to our specific extraction process, that is proprietary information and unless the same request is being asked of every company on the board, I am going to acquiesce that particular request.
Jacob is most definitely not the only member of ownership for our board, nor USP Labs only employee; in the most literal sense, USP Labs is multinational. Aside from ownership and our chemists, I am the highest ranking official at USP Labs, and I am Canadian; our manufacturing facilities and Ph.D Chemist team is located primarily in India; we have several members of ownership across the United States, and representatives in both United States in Canada. Our actions are very coordinated with our growth, and retain a certain sense of continuity in our actions - such is being displayed with our rapid retail expansion.
Any further information would be of a far too sensitive nature to divulge without some necessary burden of proof; a burden of proof, I would add, I do not feel that MP has provided.
