So this happened (Grok summary): "Oasis Health App, led by Cormac Hayden, tested LMNT electrolyte drinks and posted in December 2024 that lead levels were seven times the legal limit due to a unit conversion mistake; they corrected it within 24 hours and offered to publicize the fix, but LMNT sued in June 2026 for defamation, seeking $255 million in lost sales. Oasis now reports LMNT's lead at 15-19% of California's strict safety limit and vows to battle big food companies for consumer transparency."
For the record, I warned "activism" lab channels about their reckless online behavior. This one made a sloppy unit conversion error and the "lead contamination!" post went viral.
To Oasis and anybody else who thinks you're going to run around social media disparaging brands with sloppy (fake) lab science, I'll tell you right now: You will be sued into oblivion.
And for the record, the ingredients of the LMNT electrolyte drinks are among the best I've seen. They use stevia as a sweetener. No sugar, no caffeine, etc. This is way better than the usual processed garbage sold in the beverage / instant drink mix industry.
I run a legit ISO-accredited food science labs. One of the largest private labs in the food and supplements industry. I have seen a rash of irresponsible, reckless postings by all sorts of "activists" who claim they tested product A, or product B, and it "tested positive" for something. That term is scientifically meaningless. Literally has zero meaning in a legal or quantitative sense. Yet it functions as clickbait and generates buzz, mostly among members of the public who don't have any clue at all how legit lab science works.
Now the founder of Oasis Health App seems to be implying he's being targeted by big food to try to silence him, when the real reason he's being targeted is because HE SCREWED UP BADLY and published false, defamatory information about a popular brand that, the lawsuit no doubt alleges, seriously harmed the reputation of the brand.
By the way, feel free to test every single product my own company sells, because we not only test everything we make and sell, we publicly publish all the test results on our e-commerce website, covering all our in-house brands! We already know the test results before you do!
Nobody in the supplements industry does more in-house lab testing than we do, and we test for metals, glyphosate, microbiology, dioxins & PCBs, aflatoxins and more. That's why we're known for clean food and honest, transparent testing.