SRMs

Standard Reference Materials(SRMs ):
- There's a warehouse set up by the U.S government which has the standard samples for over 1000 substances....
(NIST : National Institute of Standards and Technology make it possible)
food and whatnot .
- From a *typical diet* sample to human samples...almost everything is available in that warehouse
- The people managing this warehouse generally work with other manufacturing companies to create the required samples
- They even have international audience , the kind who'd buy the samples of course...
-They work with the federal government and sell about 30,000 samples to them annually 
- So a *typical diet* SRM ,for example, is made once
● the manufacturer collected all sorts of diet items an average American would eat
● grinded into fine powder and stored in a small glass bottle
The sample looks grayish n contains almost all the nutrients the proteins , fats etc., that a diet generally has
- What's wild about this warehouse I that it even has chicken+pork sample- Like damn,why chicken and pork 🤦‍♀️
- The SRMs are way too costly considering they're perfected like a thousand times before labelling the composition, quantities, of various components in it
-Let's take penut butter...generally it costs less than 5$ but the SRM costs around 1500$ (roughly) that's because the samples hold a truth value...as in the information which the labels of the SRMs have is a standard
- All the products we use and the food we consume should have the nutrition percentage according to the SRMs....
- It even has domestic sludge💀
Whenever we flush, it goes through the sewer to a water treatment plant where the solid material which gets separated is dried into a fine powder only to be stored in glass containers as a standard- weird 🙃
-The FDA suggests the manufacturers to make products with compostion according to the SRMs
- Though it's impossible to make all sorts of possible food as SRMs, other standards are made which can be used as surrogates 
For example, an average fish is taken and treated so that it behaves as a surrogate for food made up of salmon material..
- All the prices of these SRMs are available here.


That's all for now, thanks!


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