As a substitute of acknowledging regulatory points and its doubtlessly unsafe merchandise, BlackOxygen Organics was operating round threatening its critics.
One recipient of a BlackOxygen Organics stop and desist was the YouTuber Savannah Marie.
Marie had revealed two BlackOxygen Organics movies to her eponymously named channel.
Roughly six weeks in the past, an legal professional representing BlackOxygen Organics despatched Marie a stop and desist.
The letter demanded Marie tackle statements and representations made in her two BlackOxygen Organics movies.
These embody:
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ merchandise comes from “poop and stuff”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics illegally extracts mud from protected wetlands, is destroying pure environments and isn’t sustainable and very damaging;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product was “not clear” and is “contaminated by trash”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product doubtless contained “microscopic helmet eggs”, that are an agent for a worm illness known as Helminthiasis;
- that the “helmet eggs” bought there from wastewater, sludge and excretia;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ CEO, Marc Saint-Onge is “doing as little as doable” to make the mud secure, and implied that persons are having severe side-effects from ingesting worms which can be within the product;
- that BlackOxygen Organics has “broken the ecosystem” and that there’s “clearly a whole lot of unethical stuff occurring”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics has “sketchy enterprise practices”;
- that Marie republished a disparaging declare, (stating) that BlackOxygen Organics was “a shit pile”;
- that Marie republished a declare that BlackOxygen Organics was “doing one thing that was unethical”;
- implying that BlackOxygen Organics’ product contained a “excessive proportion of a byproduct of the landfill proper subsequent door”;
- that Marie republished the false declare that BlackOxygen Organics’ Certificates of Evaluation “is faux”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product sampled within the CoA “was taken from subsequent to a landfill”;
- that (a) lab report “reveals two industrial contaminants … one making up over seventeen % of the pattern examined”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product could also be “poisonous”, and that the product sampled was “pulled from an atmosphere that incorporates some form of poisonous waste”;
- claiming that seventeen % of (BlackOxygen Organics’) product is “comprised of a identified toxin and is principally poison”, and that the product is “poisonous dust”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product “incorporates worms”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product “causes blisters, rashes, basic irritation, mouth sours, mucus membrane irritation and is so unsafe”;
- implying that (BlackOxygen Organics’) product “causes folks to shed their intestinal lining”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ product is “giving folks sores at finest, and intestinal lining shedding at worst”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics “targets weak folks”, and that “individuals who use the product are determined”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ extraction website is “proper subsequent to a landfill”;
- rejecting a declare that BlackOxygen Organics’ extraction website “was like fifteen miles away from the closest landfill”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ extraction website was “a landfill lavatory” and “a poisonous waste place”;
- that customers of BlackOxygen Organics’ merchandise are “actually simply consuming dust and shitting out their intestinal lining”, after which referring to that declare as “a reality that’s actually occurring”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ extraction website is “actually near a landfill and that the corporate is attempting to cover it”;
- rejecting the declare that “false and defamatory claims by haters have triggered false reporting to authorities companies”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics “didn’t even take into consideration compliance”;
- implying that BlackOxygen Organics is “going in opposition to federal regulation”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics is “hurting folks” and “bankrupting folks”;
- claiming that the scientific information which reveals the advantages of BlackOxygen Organics’ product “isn’t really science”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ elevated gross sales are “primarily based on weak folks pondering, “this magic mud can remedy my most cancers, so I’ll purchase that”;
- that BlackOxygen Organics’ “clearly didn’t have skilled company MLM executives earlier than the compliance name”; and
- that BlackOxygen Organics was “making these loopy well being claims, and hurting folks financially and medically and bodily”.
BlackOxygen Organics demanded Marie take away her YouTube movies and challenge a “sturdy correction, clarification or retraction”.
BlackOxygen Organics said they anticipated “rapid compliance” from Marie, failing which she’d be topic to “authorized proceedings”.
On account of the discover, Marie left her movies up however discontinued discussing BlackOxygen Organics on her channel.
On November twenty third, roughly 5 weeks after sending Marie a stop and desist, BlackOxygen Organics introduced it was shutting down.
In an extortion lawsuit filed in September, a couple of weeks previous to Marie’s stop and desist, BlackOxygen Organics confirmed regulatory motion.
Well being Canada had issued a recall of BlackOxygen Organics merchandise in August. This was adopted by the FDA prohibiting the sale of BlackOxygen Organics merchandise within the US later the identical month.
Neither regulator has publicly commented on the rationale for the recall and ban.
Marie claims to have put collectively a fifty-two web page response to BlackOxygen Organics’ discover. She plans to debate her response in a future video.
There’s a good bit of cross-over between claims BlackOxygen Organics objected to, attributed to Marie, and BehindMLM’s personal revealed BlackOxygen Organics overview.
What’s significantly egregious right here is BlackOxygen Organics was threatening Marie months after well being regulators in Canada and the US took motion.
BlackOxygen Organics knew one thing was up (opposite to their illustration, meals and security regulators don’t challenge recollects and block merchandise from sale as a result of hAtErZ), however had been as an alternative operating round in denial – and threatening anybody who claimed in any other case with authorized motion.
Seeing as neither BlackOxygen Organics or Marc Saint-Onge have any curiosity in transparency, I’m trying ahead to a report from Well being Canada and/or the FDA, detailing precisely what they discovered.
Replace December eighth 2021 – The FDA has issued a public well being warning, advising BlackOxygen Organics’ merchandise include elevated ranges of lead and arsenic.