Are their neurotoxins in NanoGreens10 spirulina?
The safety of spirulina has been confirmed by an independent laboratory test, which found no detectable presence of b-N-methylamino-L-Alanine (BMAA) in the microalgae.1 The result should allay any fears arising from a 2005 article on the presence of the neurotoxic amino acid in certain cyanobacteria.. A commission for independent testing from Professor Wayne Carmichael of the Department of Biological Sciences at Wright State University following the publication of an article entitled “Diverse taxa of cyanobacteria produce b-N-methylamino-L-Alanine, a neurotoxic amino acid” in the April 2005 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS 102:5074-5078), stated: “Ninety-seven percent of the free-living cyanobacteria strains tested and 73 percent of the strains isolated from symbiosis were shown to produce BMAA, but spirulina, blue-green vegetable algae rich in beta carotene, iron, vitamin B12 and gamma linolenic acid, was not included in the study making it impossible
