Andy Lee - Who's Behind Some of the Rapid Antigen Test Manufacturing Companies？
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Summary
In this episode, I take you on a dive into the world of rapid tests, and the people who make them. I cover the CEO of Artron Bioresearch Inc., the company that supplies rapid tests for health care in Canada, and what we know about the company behind it.
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i didn't set out to investigate rapid tests we will you know i'll let you know how i sort of fell
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into the story it's really really fascinating um but we've you know we've all seen these uh they're
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sent home with us a lot of us put them up our nose or we're being asked to put them up our nose
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or our children are being asked to put them up our nose their noses so um you know it's really
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really important that we know sort of what's in them and i don't think that our government has
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been entirely up front on that and normally i would just talk but i think that for this purpose
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i put together a powerpoint presentation it might be a little bit drier than what i would normally do
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but i think it's really important that i show you all that what i'm going to tell you is all backed
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up by documents so i have all the documents there so that you can look for yourselves and judge for
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yourselves you know what i'm going to show you and you know come to your own conclusions based on
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evidence not not hearsay um so yeah i mean if there's nothing else then i'll just dive into it
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and i'll tell you what i found out about rapid tests so artron covid19 antigen rapid tests are
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they as advertised so i'm going to take you on a dive here we'll look at these tests we'll look at
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where they're manufactured where they're put together and like i said i think that your eyes are going to
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be a little bit opened at the end of this presentation so let's just get into it
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so artron bioresearch inc it also goes by artron laboratories inc founded in british columbia in
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2002 it's located in burnaby so it's known for developing and manufacturing an array of things
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antibodies antigens critical components for tests so this is something that they do they don't just do
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covid rapid tests they do all kinds of rapid tests and so they've got a board of directors so this
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is jerry zhang helen key zhang azkan jeff guo and um zhun zhang so this is the board of directors so
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um i'm just going to go over here now what do we know about this company i'm going to tell you
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as an investigative journalist and i'm going to use that term to be fair i've just started doing this
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um you know i do it for myself i don't do it for anybody else i do it for myself and i do it for
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canadians um i was compelled to do it mostly after covid hit um and you know i was very concerned
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about what was going on in my country and that compelled me to start researching because i felt
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like something was you know deeply amiss in our country and that things were going wrong and so i
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felt like i had to come forward and i had to start uh working and researching and and doing work to
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you know to do my part and to try to repair what's going on in our country
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um so i could find almost nothing on this company there's almost no biographical information
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on this board of directors so this is a company that health canada's or um authorized to distribute
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rapid tests so i'm just going to show you if you actually go to their website this is this is what
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you see so if you go to their website this is the board of directors so there's no sort of
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information there's no pictures there's there's not really anything here um i can find almost
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nothing on these individuals which is unusual for me um i did find a little bit there but uh you know
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so i mean this in and of itself when you think of a you know a professional company that's distributing
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rapid tests for health canada uh you would think that they would have a very very slick website you
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know it would be um done up very very well there would be a lot of research at your fingertips
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and a lot of information about that company that you could find out very very easily and i didn't
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find that at all this is what i found so um so jerry zhang is the president of artron that's what we
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know uh so i did find that he was listed as a business delegate uh during the premier british
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columbia's trade mission to china in 2015 so you can see he's listed down there jerry zhang
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president archer on bio research so we do know that he's a chinese business delegate there's nothing
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nefarious um in that in the of itself in that fact um but i was just trying to look for it and trace
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back ties and find out what this company was all about um you know this company was sort of a mystery
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behind it that's located in canada so that's one of the things that i found out the other thing that
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i found out is that the president jerry zhang collaborates with chinese firms on research studies so
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this was a research study that i found it's on sars uh covid and so it's about t helper responses
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and now if you look at the study i'm not going to go through all the details of the study and you
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don't really need to know it but if you look at the study uh artron bio research is the lone
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company in canada that contributed to the study every single other company is located in china and