Natural Health Solutions
6469 Frazier Road
Moravia, NY 13118

Many of you may be getting questions or comments on the consumer¹s group
submitting a petition to the EPA for a ban on nano silver products. The ban
is on nano silver being used as pesticides or topical applications.
American Biotech Labs has written an article to counter the claims being
made. Many of the points have not been fully studied or researched but we
think this is knee-jerk reactions spurned on by possible pharmica motives
since many of them have financial interests in the pesticide industry.

America Biotech Labs has actually gotten approval for use of our products by
the EPA through studies we have submitted to them showing the safety data
plus they have their own safety they have laid down.

Please take the time to read the attached article and make copies for your
customer or patient base that may be concerned.

Sincerely,

Nolan Maxfield
Sales Representative
American Biotech Labs
800-605-1541 Ext 104
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American Biotech Labs¹

Nano-Silver Proven Safe For Humans

By Keith Moeller

Introduction

A great deal of misinformation has been released from the media claiming
that nano-silver products have not been tested for safety, and that it is
unknown what effects the products may have on people or the environment. It
has also been stated that these silver products can cause heavy-metal
poisoning. Little, if any, of this attack on nano-silver has validity, and
more importantly it is the work of people or special interest groups that
have something else to gain by limiting an individual¹s free right to have
and use safe silver products. American Biotech Labs has spent millions of
dollars on testing the safety and efficacy of nano-silver technology
products.

EPA Registration

American Biotech Labs already has been awarded a registration for two of
their ASAP nano-silver products from the EPA, after having completed
thousands of antimicrobial tests meeting strict EPA guidelines. Those
products have 10-minute-kill-time claims for both home and hospital
disinfection against deadly pathogens such as staph, yeast, and black mold,
etc. The products have also been approved for disinfecting dental water
lines used to spray into human mouths, as well as heating and ventilation
systems for home and industrial use.

Nano-Silver Safe For The Home And The Environment

Each EPA approved product is required to have safety information, and
according to that information a toxic spill or EPA reportable spill amount
is required to be printed in the product MSDS sheet (Material Safety Data
Sheet). For example, a chlorine-type cleaning product (found for open
purchase on store shelves right now) has a toxic spill rating of about three
gallons, meaning that a spill of three gallons or more must be reported to
the EPA and handled by HAZMAT authorities. In comparison, American

Biotech Labs¹ 32 ppm nano-silver product has a toxic spill rating of
12,500,000 gallons. An oil tanker will hold about a million gallons, which
means that 12.5 oil tankers full of the ASAP nano silver disinfectant would
have to spill their entire loads of the product together to be deemed a
toxic event to the environment. The management of American Biotech Labs
believes that there is no tank or vat large enough in the entire world that
could hold and subsequently spill enough of the ASAP disinfectant product to
actually be reportable as a toxic spill to the environment. In other words,
American Biotech Labs¹ nano-silver disinfectant product is perhaps the
safest disinfectant product, for environmental reasons, ever approved to
kill bacteria, mold, yeast and other pathogens.

Nano-Silver Tested For Cyto-toxicity (Will It Harm Human Cells?)

A number of independent cyto-toxicity tests have been completed on American
Biotech Labs¹ nano-silver products. At both 10 and 22 ppm, the products were
found to do no damage at all to either human or monkey cells, meaning that
they were found completely non-cyto-toxic. ASAP nano-silver gel products
were tested for cyto-toxicity at both 24 and 32 ppm by an independent
FDA/EPA approved lab. According to FDA guidelines, the cyto-toxicity is
reported on a scale of 1-4 (4 being highly cyto-toxic and 1 being very safe
for use). Both the 24 and 32ppm ASAP nano-silver products were deemed in the
testing to be a level 1, in other words having little or no negative effect
on the skin.

Ingested Nano Silver Toxicity Studies

Numerous ingested toxicity studies have been completed on American Biotech
Labs¹ nano-silver products. Some of the studies are outlined below.
Independent LD-50 tests on animals at levels equivalent to approximately 200
times the normal internal use adult dosage were found to be non-toxic to the
animals. A 28-day bird flu study completed by a U.S. NIH virology lab also
included a toxicity study in which the animals were fed levels of the
nano-silver at 10-200 times the normal dosage daily. The ASAP nano-silver
products were found to be non-toxic to the animals in the long term study. A
separate medical college study tested the ingestion of American Biotech
Labs¹ nano-silver product in animals at levels of 0.5 ml, 1.0 ml, and 1.5 ml

daily for 28 days, and again found the product completely non-toxic to the
animals. An Indian (World Health Organization approved) lab tested the ASAP
nano-silver products for toxicity in a mouse-model study at levels of 50,
500, 5,000 mg/kg. The product was again found to be completely non-toxic to
the animals at all levels tested in the Indian study. A peer-reviewed
preliminary HIV Human study found that the oral ingestion of 2 ounces daily
for four months of the 10 ppm ASAP nano-silver product, had no negative
effect on the seven human patients. A U.S. Congressional Testimony outlines
the use of the ASAP nano-silver product at between 0.5-1.0 ounce daily use
at 10 ppm, for human use of the product against malaria and other human
ailments (120+ cases). In all cases, no negative effects were reported from
any of the four hospitals and clinics that tested the product, by either
external or internal use (mostly internal use).

Injected Nano- Silver Toxicity Studies

Two injected mouse model studies have been completed testing the ASAP
nano-silver products at a level of 50 mg/kg, at both 10 and 32 ppm levels.
Both studies found the products to be completely non-toxic to the test
animals.

Will Nano-Silver Kill Probiotic Or Friendly Digestive Bacteria?

Two independent studies have been completed by two different major labs,
testing the effect of American Biotech Labs¹ ASAP nano-silver on probiotic
or friendly and needed digestive bacteria. Both studies found that the ASAP
nano-silver products would not even inhibit the growth of probiotic bacteria
at all levels at which it is being used.

Does Silver Cause Heavy Metal Poisoning?

The claim that silver can cause toxic nephropathy or heavy metal poisoning
is being made by both pseudo-scientists and the uniformed news media. The
statement shows a complete lack of even the most basic scientific knowledge
about silver. Toxic nephropathy is defined as ³Any functional or morphologic
change in the kidney produced by an ingested, injected, inhaled, or absorbed
drug, chemical, or biologic agent.² Probably the most accurate and widely
accepted authority on the subject would be the MERCK Manual Of Diagnosis And
Treatment. The 17th edition of the manual, on page 1880, shows the complete
list of heavy metals that can cause heavy metal poisoning. The list includes
a number of metals like copper and iron that are found in everyday vitamins,
but silver is not listed in any form. It was not accidently forgotten from
the list, and it was not listed in the comprehensive list because it does
not cause the problem! Listed under ³Methemoglobin formers², the Merck does
list sodium nitrite as a cause of nephropathy. The importance of this being
that if silver is mixed with heavy salt or sodium products it could be
classified as causing nephropathy, not because of the silver, but because of
the heavy amount of salt contained in the matrix of the combined product.
The heavy use of silver nitrate in the medical industry (both past and
present) may have led people to the common, but incorrect misconception
about silver.

Has The U.S. EPA Established An RfD Or Oral Daily Silver Intake Limit?

In 1991 the EPA issued an oral intake limit for daily use on silver to be
0.005 mg/kg/day (EPA RED Document pg.2). This means that according to the
EPA guidelines for silver ingestion, an average size adult could safely
consume the equivalent of one ounce daily of a 10 ppm silver product and not
exceed the EPA established daily intake limit. On page two of the EPA RED
document it states, ³EPA does not anticipate that dietary exposure to these
low levels of silver will be associated with any significant degree of
risk².

Can Oral Silver Consumption Cause Cancer?

It has been suggested by numerous pseudo-scientists that the long term use
of silver can cause cancer in some form or another. The statement is false.
The EPA IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) Report on Silver states
under the first paragraph listed under section 11.A.2., ³No evidence of
cancer in humans has been reported despite frequent therapeutic use of the
compound (silver) over the years². Again, under section 11.A.4. it states,
³Further support for the lack of silver¹s ability to induce or promote
cancer stems from the finding that, despite long standing and frequent
therapeutic usage in humans, there are no reports of cancer associated with
silver². Can Silver Cause Cells To Mutate?

On page 9 of the EPA IRIS Report it states, ³No evidence of the mutagenicity
of silver was shown in two available studies².

The European Commission Has Determined The Oral Supplement Use Of Silver To
Be Safe!

The European Commission, Health & Consumer Protection Directorate-General,
Opinion listed under Directorate B – Scientific Health Opinions, on the use
of silver in medical devices, beverages, and supplements, issued their
opinion on June 27th 2000 after a comprehensive study of the subject. The
opinion is stated in their conclusion on page eight. The opinion states,
³According to Annex IV of Directive 94/36, Silver (E. 174) can be used
quantum satis to color both food and beverages, and the metal can also be
ingested in the form of dietary supplements sold in ³health-food² shops². In
other words they found that silver metal was safe for oral ingestion as a
supplement!

Why Are There Some Negative Historical Reports regarding The Use Of Silver
Products

Historically, silver was used at very high levels and mixed with numerous
toxic compounds including arsenic, mercury, salt, iodine and others. It was
not the silver in these compounds that made the complex toxic, as listed in
the reports quoting some reported case studies, but the other added
products. There is a vast amount of data on the toxicity of the other
compounds like arsenic, which when added to silver could make the entire
matrix toxic. The most widely used compound that was mixed with silver was
salt in the form of sodium nitrate. Silver nitrate was used at very high
levels. Even when used at those high levels, the silver nitrate products
were found to be only mildly toxic and found to be safe enough to put into
baby¹s eyes at birth. One toxicity study on rats (EPA Office Of Drinking
Water report issued August 1988, Revised January, 1991 pg. III-18) cites an
oral toxicity study completed on rats. The rats were given drinking water
containing 1296 mg/l (equal to 1296 ppm silver ) of silver nitrate. Drinking
the very high content silver nitrate as their entire drinking water supply
daily, the animals remained healthy for 60 weeks (1year and 3 months). After
the 60 weeks the animals started to deteriorate in health. After the 76th
week the animals were returned to drinking regular water and all animals
returned to normal health. This proved that even long term ingestion of huge
levels of high-content silver nitrate, only had a mildly negative effect on
the animals, and that effect was only temporary with no lasting effect once
they were taken off the product.

Safest Means To Protect Our Homes And Families

In December of 2000, a JAMA article reported that more than 100,000 people
had died in the U.S. that year as a side effect of antibiotics used
correctly. That number did not include antibiotics that were misused. Of the
millions of people consuming silver products of all types that year, no
deaths were reported. If a child accidently consumed one bottle of vitamins
or household cleaner, or hundreds of other products in our homes, he or she
would most likely be killed or at least harmed. In comparison, if that same
child were to accidently drink an entire 16 ounce bottle of the EPA approved
ASAP hospital disinfectant, he or she would not be harmed in any way. A
major university found in its testing that this same product, which would
not hurt a child, could kill the two most deadly bacteria found in hospitals
(MRSA and VRE), even when it was diluted down to only 2.5 ppm. The point is
that silver may not be perfect, but it is by far the safest and most
effective, hospital, home, and body disinfectant we have in the world today.
It is the only safe way we currently have to fight off deadly infections and
disease.

Proven Effective Against Pathogens

American Biotech Labs currently holds more than 160 independent studies from
more than 60 different private, U.S. government, military, and also
university labs. The studies include more than an estimated 10,000
individual antimicrobial tests. The ASAP nano-silver product has proven
effective at eliminating malaria from the bloodstream in 4 different
preliminary studies, in an average of just 3.34 days, by internal human
ingestion. The product was proven, in an animal-model study at a U.S.
government NIH lab, to be able to increase the survival rate of mice by 100%
against the deadly H5-N1 Bird Flu virus, when using the product orally on a
daily basis (also released in peer review journal). The product was proven
in a preliminary, independent, peer reviewed journal article, to be able to
increase the T lymphocyte count in 7 human AIDS patients by an average of
almost 40%, in four months of oral usage at just 2 ounces daily. The product
technology is patented to be able to kill TB, MRSA, Hepatitis b., HIV,
yeast, and too many other pathogens to list here. The point is that it is a
very broad spectrum antimicrobial agent, which also has been tested and
found to be completely non-toxic to humans and animals at any level tested.

Conclusion

American Biotech Labs has already registered with the EPA as a pesticide,
with approvals as a surface disinfectant, HVAC disinfectant, and also as a
disinfectant for dental water lines. The company has been issued a toxicity
rating showing that in order for the product to be toxic to the environment,
12, 500,000 gallons of the hospital disinfectant product would have to be
spilled at one time. No tank or vat could even hold enough of the product at
one time for it to be considered toxic in the event of any spill. American
Biotech labs has completed millions of dollars of comprehensive, independent
safety and efficacy data on its nano-silver products, including but not
limited to: cyto-toxicity studies; injected and ingested studies at high and
low levels of silver content and also for both short and long periods of
time; also skin sensitivity studies. All studies have concluded that the
ASAP nano-silver products are not toxic to cells, animals, or humans.

The U.S. EPA has issued an RfD for silver showing that a normal size adult
could safely consume the equivalent of an ounce of a 10 ppm product daily
for an entire lifetime (based on 72 years). The European Commission On
Health And Consumer Protection issued an opinion after a comprehensive study
on silver that metallic silver was safe for ingestion in drinks and food,
and also could be sold in health-food stores as a supplement.

Silver is not a metal that causes heavy metal poisoning as has been reported
by numerous pseudo-scientists. The Merck Index does not list silver as a
compound that causes nephropathy.

Individuals must be allowed some way to safely protect themselves and their
families from deadly pathogens and infections that are rampant in our
hospitals, schools, and homes. Silver may not be perfect, but it is
presently by far the safest and most broad spectrum bacteria and infection
killing substance available to mankind.

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