"Clean coffee" is often used as a broad marketing phrase. The useful question is not the phrase itself, but whether the brand provides evidence that customers can inspect.
Five things a transparent report should show
- Laboratory: Who performed the analysis?
- Sample: Which product or lot was tested?
- Analytes: Which compounds or elements were included?
- Methods and limits: How sensitive was the analysis?
- Results: What did the laboratory actually report?
How to read common result language
"Not Detected" is tied to the specific method and reporting limit. "Below the quantification limit" means the analyte was below the level the laboratory could reliably quantify using that method. Neither phrase should be stretched into a universal claim about every future lot.
Latin Bird Coffee's published report
FoodChain ID tested a roasted coffee sample identified as lot #12983284. The mycotoxins listed in the report were reported as Not Detected. Arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead were each below the laboratory's 0.010 ppm quantification limit.
Review the full report and judge the evidence for yourself.
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