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Introduction
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This EM Info website is intended
to provide a complete introduction to a synergistic, syntropic
(anti-entropic),
metabiotic (where each organism creates favorable conditions for the
growth
of the other) and antioxidative microbial technology generically known
as EM, also known generically as effective microorganisms, and marketed
by various vendors around the world under the names Efficient Microbes
(EM)™, EMRO USA Effective Microorganisms™, EM-1,
EM1, EM•1®, Beneficial
Microbes, Beneficial Microorganisms (BM), Beneficial and
Effective
Microbes (BEM), EM Kyusei, Kyusei EM, Vita Biosa™, Terra
Biosa™, Effective
Microbes, Efficient Microorganisms, Compound Microorganisms (CM),
Molasses
Culture, Cultured Molasses, and over a dozen other names (discussed in
more detail in the Introduction
to EM section) -- and its uses in
many fields, including
agriculture, waste remediation, odor control, and human and animal
health.
Throughout this website, the simple and generic abridgement "EM"
will be used as an abbreviation to denote this general class of
synergistic
syntropic metabiotic antioxidative microbial consortia; this is in
keeping
with the use of this contraction throughout much of the world as a
shorthand
to indicate all such cultures with similar microbial composition,
properties
and functionality, regardless of the brand names or trade names which
may
be employed in a region.
Table
of Contents
You will find the following
sections in this cluster of pages about Effective Microorganisms, or
EM.
Introduction and Background (on main EM page):
Preface
Mission
Statement
Introduction
to EM, also a Brief List of Uses
Are
Effective Microorganisms (EM·1) Patented, Trademarked or
Registered?
More
About EM: Debunking a Few EM Myths; a Brief FAQ
A
Bit of Background and History on EM
More About EM:
How
I Stumbled upon EM
The
Various Names for EM·1 and Similar and Related Products
Are
EM and EM-like Cultures Produced and Marketed Only by EMRO and its
Licensees?
EM
Secondary Products: Ceramics and More
The
EM Culture and Organisms (Flora)
The
Secrets
of the Various Dilutions and Ratios (sub-sections listed below...):
- Are
the Dilutions (such as 1:1:100 or 1:1:1,000) as
Powerful as Activated EM (at 1:1:20)?
- How
Long Do the Dilutions with Molasses Stay Potent
and Viable?
- Why
Does My Activated EM Have an Effective Life of
30 Days, While EM Stock Culture is Claimed to Have a Useful Lifetime
(Viability)
of 6 Months?
More Info about EM, Including Origins, Dr. Higa's
Observations on EM,
etc.
Some
Basic Assertions Made About EM By Dr. Higa and Others
The
Core EM Organisms May Have Arrived on Earth From Outer Space
A
Few Miscellaneous Notes on EM-X and Tropical Plant Resources
Getting Started With EM in the Real World:
Where
to Purchase EM
What
to do with Your EM Culture When You Receive It
Making
Activated EM, Formerly Known as EM Extension
Storing
and Using Activated EM
(EM Extension)
EM Bokashi; EM and Antioxidant Activity :
Human Uses
of EM:
EM-X and Related; also: Online
EM-related Resources
Utility Uses of EM and Miscellaneous Articles:
Various
Utility Uses of the Antioxidant (aka Reducing or Reductive)
Effects of EM
Details
on Uses of EM in Removing Rust, Corrosion and Tarnish (Gunk and Crud)
from
Metals, a Fun Demonstration with Some Practical Applications!
EM
and Its Acidity -- Dangerous for Plastics?
Effects
of EM Upon Some Plastics and Rubber, and on Some Fabric Dyes
About this Website:
Future
Sections which may be added over time:
- Hints
on
Making Homemade Versions of an EM-X like Antioxidant-rich and
Nutrient-rich
Probiotic Beverage (currently a sub-section under Human Uses)
- Methods
for Making/Enhancing Ormus Elements or Minerals with EM
- Methods
to Increase Effectiveness of Activated EM (aka EM Extension) for Some
Applications
- Agricultural
and Gardening Uses
- Livestock
and Poultry Uses
Notice and Disclaimer
(this notice
appears
on each page on this site)
A few of the
uses for
EM culture and products which are discussed herein may
be contrary
to regulatory rules or guidelines in your country, state, province,
county
or region. Further, some practices may be frowned upon by
qualified
health professionals, and some practices could be dangerous to human
health,
or could be dangerous to animal health (or crop health!) if
performed
or processed incorrectly. This site and these pages are
offered for
educational and informational purposes only. If you choose to
use
EM or any other microbial inoculant products in any way for any
application,
you must first check with your local and national authorities to
determine
if your planned use complies with all applicable rules, regulations and
requirements. If you choose to use EM for any purposes
involving
human ingestion (or placement upon skin, etc.), I recommend that
you first research all relevant information available in the
literature and
on the web carefully, and review the recommendations in the
regulatory guidelines for
your
country or region. Further, if brewing EM products
for
human or animal consumption, you will also wish to employ common sense
and careful techniques.
Any
statements and opinions
offered in these pages are my opinions only offered in reportorial and
informational mode, and do not reflect in any way the views of any
creators,
producers, distributors, marketer or vendors of various EM-type
cultures
or products. Please note that I (the author) am not in any way
associated
with any of the above-referenced persons or organizations, although I
may
occasionally perform consulting for some companies, entities and
individuals
in the EM field. All opinions and statements remain my own
reportage
and opinions, and at times my opinions and/or practices may differ
wildly
from those of the various creators, producers, distributors
or vendors
of EM products or EM-like products.
Preface
EM is a generic shorthand
name for a powerful and beneficial metabiotic (where each organism
creates
favorable conditions for the growth of the others) and antioxidative
microbial
culture consisting of anywhere from 5 to 100 different species of
organisms,
depending upon exact variant. EM has been known by a number of names
around
the world, a few of which are: Effective Microorganisms, Effective
Microorganisms,
Efficient Microbes(EM)™, EM-1™, EM1™,
EM·1™, Beneficial Microbes,
Beneficial Microorganisms (BM), Beneficial and Efficient
Microbes
(BEM)™, EM Kyusei, Kyusei EM, Vita Biosa, Terra Biosa,
Molasses Culture,
Cultured Molasses, Molasses Ferment and Effective Microbes, and about
two
dozen other names which will be discussed in more detail in the Introduction
to EM section below.
EM refers to a very special
and unique microbial inoculant culture which has become known worldwide
and has found uses in a number of different fields and areas of human
endeavors,
but particularly in the fields of sustainable agriculture and farm
waste
management, toxic waste remediation, and -- more recently -- human and
animal health.
I have written these pages
to offer my own unique perspective on the uses of these powerful and
impressive
organisms, and to offer a bit of orientation and assistance to
folks
who may be starting out with using EM for various household, gardening,
agricultural, livestock, industrial or health-related uses.
Please
understand that any statements and opinions offered in these pages are
my opinions only, and do not
reflect in any way the views of any creators, producers, distributors,
marketer or vendors of various EM-type cultures or products. Please
note
that I (the author) am not in any way associated with any of the
above-referenced
persons or organizations, although I may occasionally perform
consulting
for some companies, entities and individuals in the EM field.
All
opinions and statements remain my own reportage and opinions, and at
times
my opinions and/or practices may differ wildly from those of the
various
creators, producers, distributors or vendors of EM products or EM-like
products.
Cover of a Japanese
magazine devoted to EM
There are already some good
websites out there with good information on various uses for EM in the
fields of agriculture, animal health, livestock health (reduced
illness),
waste management, toxic waste (or soil) remediation, nutrient (runoff)
management, human health and conditioning building material; you may
find
them easily with any good search engine. Frankly, the primary
reason
why I decided to create this website was because I encountered quite a
bit of ambiguity and confusion when I first started to use and play
with
EM and related cultures. The confusion and ambiguity came
from many
sources; from distributors and vendors of EM products, EM retail
stores,
and "official" EM websites for various organizations, and from
other, non-official EM websites, and from individuals in the
EM world. I
often received confusing answers to my questions, or replies which
totally
contradicted what someone at the same organization had told me the day
before, or which contradicted what the label on my EM bottle advised,
contradicted
what an "official" EM website advised, or contradicted what many
unofficial
EM websites claimed.
The deeper I waded into the
EM waters, the more impressed I became with the synergistic metabiotic
consortium (cluster) of organisms called EM and their incredible
usefulness,
and yet the more aware I became that there was apparently a lot of
confusion
and miscommunication in the EM world. Now, part of that
ambiguity
can simply be laid at the door of the fact that EM is a set of live
organisms,
and thus flexible and adaptable, and therefore using them may be more
of
an art than a precise science. That is definitely part of the
picture.
Further, more of the ambiguity may be laid at the door of the
possibility
that we may still be on a learning curve about how to best use these
organisms
in many fields and areas, and thus procedures may still be in the
process
of being fine-tuned. However, I feel that much of the
confusion was
and is due to a language barrier:
- the technology originated in
Japan
- a good part of it continues
to be fine-tuned in Japan
- much of the seminal research
is yet done in Japan
- little of the work on EM is
officially translated from Japanese into English or other Western
languages
for downstream distributors, vendors, consultants and end-users
- for the small volumes of work
on EM which has yet been translated into English, it is my
understanding
that there have been some errors in translation which have contributed
to a number of misunderstandings
- it is my belief that some organizations
-- particularly at the distributor/vendor level -- may deliberately
obscure
certain pieces of information or communicate them in a confusing or
distracting
way, perhaps so as to keep certain facts, methods and processes
proprietary
or to avoid alarming overly-aggressive or overly-vigilant regulatory
authorities.
- a final point to consider is
this: Barclay Simpson, an EM specialist at SCD (Sustainable Community
Development)
in Kansas, once remarked to me that EM tends to be very powerful and
often
EM and its performance challenges our dearly-held paradigms which we
learned
via Western culture and Western science, forcing us to re-examine them,
but leading to some confusion and contradictions while we are yet on
the
learning curve.
Unfortunately, one result of
the state of confusion is that many websites and other information
sources
on EM offer conflicting accounts, recommendations and explanations for
EM and its use in various fields.
Smiling Japanese
citizens pouring homemade Activated
EM into waterway in Japan to remediate pollution
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Mission
Statement
The primary purpose of these
web pages is to report both on some conventional and some rather
unconventional,
but highly interesting and potentially very powerful, uses to which
folks
(myself included) are putting EM, often in the realms of
animal health,
human health and nutrition. These web pages are further offered as a
response
to some of the ambiguity, contradictions and confusion I have
encountered
as I have made my way through the EM world, to allow me to present to
you
what I have learned, and perhaps clear up a bit of the
murkiness.
My realization, strange or
metaphysical as it sounds, is that these organisms teach us as we go
along,
helping us to use them more efficiently and to enrich our lives in many
ways. I have heard this opinion echoed many times by folks
who work
professionally with EM on a daily basis.
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Introduction
to EM,
also
Brief List of Uses
Introduction
As you may or may not already
be aware, EM is a generic shorthand abbreviation which is used
worldwide
to denote a synergistic, syntropic (anti-entropic) and metabiotic
(where
each organism creates favorable conditions for the growth of the other)
microbial consortium (aggregate of more than one type of microbe) with
powerful antioxidative properties which was first evolved in Japan, and
which has become known worldwide and has found uses in a number of
different
fields and areas of human endeavors. The broad family of microbial
cultures
which embody the technology are often known by the generic name
"effective
microorganisms". The exact microbes in the microbial consortium may
vary
somewhat over time, but there are certain principles that guide which
beneficial microorganisms are included and how they are combined with
the
other microbes in the formula. It is likely safe to say that
the
single largest area of EM utility is in farming (agriculture), and even
more so within the realms of organic farming, sustainable farming,
grass-fed
farming and so-called beyond-organic, uber-organic, super-organic or
biological
farming. However, EM has also found applications in waste
treatment,
waste water treatment, toxic waste remediation, remediation of polluted
waterways, human and animal health, protecting building materials
(architects
call EM "building friendly"), and in many other diverse areas as well.
The general technology for
EM apparently originated in Japan. It appears to have been
largely
developed by Dr. Teruo Higa, a horticulture professor in the Department
of Horticulture at the College of Agriculture at University of Ryukyu
in
Japan, and was developed by Dr. Higa during his tenure as a professor
at
the university. Dr. Higa has indicated that he started working with
many
of the component microbes in the formula in the 1970s, and that he
started
popularizing the microbial combination (aka consortium) by 1982. The EM
microbial inoculant culture -- depending upon brand/label and
region/country
-- consists of a consortium (synergistic cooperative community) of from
six to about 100 individual species (more on this in a later section!)
of beneficial microorganisms, including lactic acid bacteria,
phototrophic (aka photosynthetic) bacteria and yeast, all in a
synergistic,
metabiotic and cooperative "community". The member species
of organisms in the consortium belong to any of several families
and several genera. The individual microorganisms found in EM
are
all fully natural (indeed, EM is certified as an organic farming
product),
are commonly found worldwide in soil and ponds and even on many leaves
and other surfaces in nature and are commonly found almost everywhere
in
nature (but not often in the quantity, balance or relationship as found
in EM. Dr. Higa eventually wrote about EM and the varied uses
for
it in his book An Earth Saving Revolution,
which was followed
a few years later by a second volume entitled An
Earth Saving Revolution
II. He has since penned
additional books, including
one on EM-treated salt.
Cover of An
Earth Saving Revolution, Volume
I, by Dr. Teruo Higa
It appears that the
word "Effective" entered the lexicon of the Western EM world in the
early
1980s; due to a mistranslation from Japanese to English (and some
European
languages) of Dr. Higa's first book and some of his first articles and
lecture transcripts. Be that as it may, EM has become known all over
the
Western world and part of the East as well in the interim, as
"Effective
Microorganisms".
Names, Brands, Labels
The microbial culture/technology
commonly known as EM is and has been known and marketed around the
world
by a number of producers and vendors under a number of different names,
brands and labels, including Efficient Microbes
(EM)™, EMRO USA Effective
Microorganisms™, EM-1, EM1, EM•1®,
Beneficial Microbes (aka BM), Beneficial
Microorganisms (BM), Beneficial and Effective Microbes (BEM),
EM
Kyusei, Kyusei EM, Vita Biosa™, Terra
Biosa™, Effective Microbes,
Essential Microorganisms, Efficient Microorganisms, Compound
Microorganisms
(CM), Complex Fermented Microorganisms™ (CFM), Full Spectrum
Soil Base
Microorganisms, Fermented Microorganisms, Molasses Culture, Cultured
Molasses,
Stuff for Food Dregs™, and over two dozen other
names. Once we
venture into the realm of EM-fermented products for human consumption
or
animal use, we encounter even more brand and label names, including
Fervita,
Sootheox, Fermalive, Eco-farm, Emos-farm, Emos No.1, Bio-farm,
Oxydon™
and Time-X™ (each of which are raw and do contain live
culture), and also
a few pasteurized and filtered non-live products such as EM-X.
Uses
EM has found applications
in the following areas, and likely many more:
- agriculture: for conditioning
soil, compost and plant wastes. It has been proven that continued use
of
EM can convert a soil to a truly sustainable type of soil, called a zymogenic
soil
- agriculture: for feeding
livestock, for waste treatment, for odor control and pest management
(e.g.,
flies); manages odors, improves feed utilization, improves health and
vitality
- agriculture: for treating
or controlling various fungal diseases or pests of plants
- lawn maintenance: for treating
soil and compost or organic fertilizers, for preventing fusarium and
molds
- buildings and architecture:
to maintain healthy buildings and building materials (lumber, concrete,
plaster, etc.) to prevent "sick building syndrome" and extend
life
of materials
- as a deodorizer for barns,
waste treatment areas, homes, etc.
- as an aerosol spray deodorizer
for home, agricultural and industrial use
- household: pets, odor control,
treating pet wastes on floors, for shower stalls, kitchen sinks,
dishpans,
garbage pails, toilets, drains, sinks, sink drains, compost buckets,
etc.
- human use: ingestion of a
wide range of products made from EM, as a healthful probiotic and
antioxidant
supplement
- waste treatment
- wastewater tratment
- septic waste treatment
- for remediation of polluted
or unbalanced waterways, streams, bays, ponds and lakes
- toxic waste remediation
- preparation of waste biomass
material for bio-conversion into fuels such as biodiesel and others
Smiling Japanese
citizens pouring homemade Activated
EM into a waterway in Japan for pollution remediation
More Japanese
citizens pouring homemade Activated
EM into yet another waterway in Japanto remediate pollution
Discounted
Sources for Ordering EM Products
(EM culture,
EM-X, EM Ceramics, etc.) and
EM Fermentation
Supplies
If you are in the USA or nearby countries,
and you wish to purchase
EM products such as EM microbial inoculant culture, EM fermenting
supplies,
bokashi, EM-X health beverage, EM Ceramics, EM Salt, or EM
Soap,
at a discounted price, please check out the major vendors listed below:
SCD World
SCD World is a marketing outreach
of Sustainable Community Development
(SCD) in Kansas (in the USA), they also carry several lines of EM
fermented
antioxidant nutritional supplement beverages, as well as the complete
Garden
of Life line.
Website: http://www.scdworld.com
phone: 913-541-9299 (USA)
Discount: If you wish to earn a 7% discount on all products,
please use the discount code VP2004
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Is
EM Patented,
Trademarked
or Registered?
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as of 7/13/2004, will
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The essential basic technology
of the EM microbial culture is a consortium of five or more species of
microorganisms, across at least three classes of organisms, in a
synergistic
culture (called a consortium) which produces lactic acid under
anaerobic
fermentation and which also produces an environment (in the liquid or
plant
matter under fermentation, etc.) which is highly antioxidative and
regeneratvie,
or syntropic (aka anti-entropic) and which contains numerous powerful
antioxidants,
largely produced by phototrophic anaerobic bacteria known as purple
non-sulfur
bacteria.
Since 1982, it is my perception
(and that of many others with whom I have spoken) that Dr. Higa has
essentially
released the basic technology of EM into the public domain worldwide
via
his lectures, articles and books, and also via information disseminated
to his classes at Ryukus University, although it is true that some
(microbial
combination) instances and some specific uses of the technology have
been
patented in recent years by Dr. Higa in a number of
countries. So,
the basic technology of combining three or more species of organisms
from
at least 3 separate classes of organisms (the bare minimum 3 classes
are
yeasts, lactic acid bacteria, and phototrophic bacteria) to produce a
lactic
acid fermentation with strong antioxidative properties seems to be
largely
in the public domain, although Dr. Higa may well have kept certain
details
or twists proprietary (e.g., they are not disclosed in his patents nor
in
his lectures or classes), and he also holds at least three patents
apiece
in Japan, the USA and other countries for specific instances of this
microbial
consortium technology. It appears that each of these patents
lists
the patentable intellectual property as consisting of a consortium of
at
least 5 species of microorganisms, with at least one species drawn from
each of five classes of organisms, wherein the first three classes of
organisms
are those mentioned above (yeasts, lactic acid bacteria, and
phototrophic
bacteria) followed by two additional classes of
microorganisms: actinomycetes
(aka ray fungi, but really bacteria) and true mold
fungi. It is
these latter two groups which have apparently often disappeared from a
number of modern EM cultures produced and marketed by EMRO and some of
the sister EM-related companies or licensees.
Dr. Higa's US Patents on the
EM Technologies:
5,707,856
Microbiological method for disposing of organic waste
materials
5,698,028
Composition and process for improving soil
5,683,951
Composition and process for improving water quality and fuel
5,683,665
Composition and process for cleansing exhaust gas
5,683,664
Composition and process for deodorizing an odor
5,602,065
Process for preparing functional ceramics
5,591,634
Microbiological method for disposing of organic waste
materials
5,521,131
Functional ceramics
Trademarked Names
Within the fields of
microbial inoculant cultures, microbial soil and agricultural
treatments,
and microbial waste treatment, the names EM1, EM-1, EM·1 (as
in
EM[dot]1), EM·2, EM·3, EM·4,
EM·5 and EM-X
have been frequently used by EMRO and EMCO and many, or all, appear
to have been trademarked by EMRO (or EMCO) in many countries around the
world. It is my observation that this is especially true of
the trade
name EM·1 and the associated EMRO EM·1 label/mark
with the
green disks of varying shape.
Therefore, while it would
likely, from my vantage point, be legal for someone not associated with
EMRO or EMCO or one of their licensees to produce and market a similar
microbial culture product (e.g., containing organisms from the 3
primary
classes of EM organisms listed above, plus perhaps some other microbes
as well)
with similar functionality, using the basic public domain portion of
the
EM microbial consortium technology, under their own name (e.g., Joe's
Microbial Culture, Sue's Compost Potion, AgSci
Molasses Culture, Beneficial
Microorganisms, Vita Biosa, or Beneficial
and Efficient Microbes),
it would likely be a violation of trademark law for such vendors to
attempt
to market their product under any of the names or variants listed above
which have been trademarked by EMRO and EMCO, or to use their
trademarked
logos on their packaging. In other words, if you encounter a microbial
inoculant product which is labeled with any of the names listed above
--
especially EM·1, then -- in my view -- it would need to be
produced
and marketed by EMRO/EMCO or one of their licensees, or the vendor
could
be in legal trouble.
Further, as has been noted
in the Patents section of this website, a good portion of the concept
of
the microbial consortium known as Effective Microorganisms and the
technology
involved in making it, is -- from my perspective -- already in the
public
domain, due largely to the efforts of Dr. Higa since his discovery of
the
technology in the early 1980s. Consider also the following
points:
Dr. Higa has apparently
already shared much of his technology freely in his books, in lectures
and in the classrooms at the university at which he teaches (at least
at
the graduate level), apparently well before any relevant patents were
filed.
From my perspective, this is in keeping with his stated intent to offer
the technology to the world, and was likely a deliberate tactic on the
part of Dr. Higa, in order to allow Effective Microorganisms and
related
methods and technologies to be easily spread to the entire world.
- EMRO apparently came into
existence as a commercial for-profit company in 1994
- Any and all patents on EM
appear to have been applied for well after 1994, well after the
technology
and methods were apparently disseminated to the public via several
media
and venues.
- Not only has Dr. Higa repeatedly
stated and written that he wishes to give this technology to the entire
world, but a perusal of his basic US patents for the Effective
Microorganisms
technology reveals that they appear (at least to me) to be so broadly
and
loosely written that many microbial products with similar microbial
composition
and similar functionality would not be in violation of the
patent(s).
- Since the mid-1980's, EM
culture inoculant has been produced and distributed throughout Japan
and
parts of Asia by Dr. Higa's students and by SKK, and also by
organizations
affiliated with SKK, such as INFRC and APNAN, thus apparently belying
any
latter-day claims by EMRO that they are the only "official" source of
EM
culture in the world.
There is one other point
to consider regarding patentability of the microbial consortia... the
fact
that the same organisms (yeast, lactic acid bacteria, phototrophic
purple
non-sulfur bacteria, and even actiomyces and streptomyces) already
often
co-exist in similar consortia throughout nature, in deep soil, in pond
mud, and elsewhere. Indeed, academics and scientists who are
not at
all part of the EM world and who have never heard of Dr. Higa or
EM·1
technology have long noted and reported each of the following separate
phenomena:
- purple non-sulfur bacteria,
in consortia with lactic bacteria and/or yeasts, are often the mode of
choice of Mother Nature for breaking down toxins deep in the ground,
and
these organism are often found in deep aquifers.
- wild pitcher plants (carnivorous
plants which eat insects and animals, and whose lower leaves form a
"pitcher"
filled with liquid), have been repeatedly found to contain a similar,
if
more complex (more classes of organisms) consortia in the liquid in
their
"pitchers"; such liquid has been reported to be especially rich in the
purple non-sulfur phototrophic bacteria.
If you have read the above
section, it may be obvious that a good portion of the basic technology
of the EM microbial consortium is likely already in the public
domain.
However, one the other hand, beyond mere trademarking of certain brand
names such as EM·1 (that is, EM[dot]1) I speculate that EMRO
may
well wish at some point to take other steps to ensure maintenance of at
least
some control over their particular version of the technology. To this
end,
I have heard from several contacts in Japan that an ultimate tactic
which
may eventually be employed by EMRO to maintain some legal control over
the distribution of their particular microbial consortia may be to
identify
and then patent one or more organisms in at least one or two classes of
organisms -- likely one or more of the PNSB -- in the original Japanese
culture which have evolved enough over the years the culture has been
used
in Japan that the DNA signature (aka "fingerprint") of the species
variant
now exhibits discernable difference from that of other examples of the
species, enabling it to able to be uniquely identified via DNA analytic
"fingerprinting" techniques. It seems that there may be at
least
one variant species of phototrophic (PNSB) organism and at least one
variant
species of yeast in the original Japanese EM·1 culture (used
by
EMRO) which may have evolved enough over time that they could be
patentable.
This action would not keep other vendors from producing and marketing
EM
microbial inoculant cultures and products under their own name, but
would
effectively preclude them from using the exact variants of the PNSB and
yeast species which had been patented by EMRO -- these producers would
still be free to use other variants of these species...
This potential tactic
on the part of EMRO makes a lot of sense to me -- and, indeed, is
exactly
the tactic that many bio-technology companies before them have done to
gain some control over distribution of their technology. Indeed, Dr.
Higa
first learned of the power of the phototrophic organisms which are used
in his consortium from an academic colleague, who was using the purple
non-sulfur bacteria with great success for wastewater treatment and
odor
control in waste lagoons. This academic colleague, Dr.
Kobayashi,
who is currently a professor at Kyoto University, eventually founded
one
or more companies which employed his technology for waste treatment and
agricultural uses. In order to maintain some degree of legal
control
over their products and technology, they patented several very unique
variant
species (aka subspecies) of the photophropic organism which they had
isolated
and cultured, as the general technology was likely not patentable,
since
these organisms had been performing this function in nature well before
humans came along. So, this pathway may ultimately be the best way for
EMRO to maintain some degree of legal control over deployment of their
technology (again, as noted above, this would not stop other vendors
from
making and marketing EM cultures under their own names, but rather
simply
ensure that they used other variants of the species.)
The downside of this method
would be that it would mean that EMRO and their licensees -- in order
for
their microbial cultures to be protected under their patents -- would
need
to "spike" each and every batch of their microbial inoculant culture
with
these uniquely identifiable and patented organisms. Now, for me,
speaking
as someone who lives in the USA, this seems to be a very reasonable,
common-sense
and benign proposition, and I suspect it would not raise alarm here in
the
USA. However, that is because most Americans are at least
modestly
scientifically literate, and have little or no fears of so-called
"foreign
microbes". But, a fear of "foreign microbes" is very real and
very
big in some European countries and in parts of Asia, including
Malaysia,
and thus could interfere with marketing efforts. I have never
understood
this fear of so-called "foreign microbes" myself, because anyone with a
bit of wits and a bit of scientific background understands that
microbes
(other than some few species which are so specialized and fragile that
they can only exist in a very unique ecosystem, such as exactly three
feet
below the ice layer in an Arctic pond) are ubiquitous, and always have
been spread over the entire world by wholly natural forces such as:
- wind dispersal
- rain dispersal
- snow dispersal
- glacial movements
- erosion, causing microbe-laden
particles to be carried long distances
- creeks and streams
- ponds and lakes
- rivers
- oceans and ocean current
- movement of insects over
land and in air
- people (people who travel
more than a few miles from home, that is...)
- commerce
- cars, airplanes and boats
- movements fish and mammals
(dolphins, etc.) in lakes and oceans
- movement of land animals
on land
- plant seeds
- volcanic action
Further, since the spread
of international commerce and the introduction in the past two
centuries
of faster and more efficient modes of transportation such as cars,
trucks,
railroads and air travel, there are now more modes than ever for
microbes
to wander the world. Nonetheless, these fears of "foreign
microbes"
seem to loom very large in some regions of the world, and indeed, such
fears could effectively preclude any attempts by EMRO to spike their
local
regional cultures of EM·1 with patented variant species of
organisms
in those regions. However, as I intimated earlier, such fears
would
likely not be a factor in much of the Western world, including the USA
and Canada, with the possible exception of Hawaii, which is very
vigilant
about all "foreign" forms of life.
Who Are the Licenseholders for
EM Technologies?
Worldwide, the two largest licenseholders for EM technologies and the
trademarked names are EMRO and EMCO, both headquartered in Japan.
However,
there are others as well. In Japan a good portion of the EM-1
and
other EM cultures (e.g., EM-2, EM-3 and EM-4) produced for market is
produced
by a company called EM Laboratory. This company is a part of
the
International Nature Farming Research Center (INFRC), which is licensed
by EMRO to use EM technologies worldwide. (There appears to be one
other
company in Japan which produces EM-1 and related cultures, and it does
not appear to have a licensing agreement with EMRO, but it appears that
the microbial combination used in their product may not be covered by
existing
patents held by Dr. Higa, as the microbes may be drawn from a more
limited
pool of classes than the five covered in the patent.) Other
well-known
licenseholders for EM technologies include Tropical Plant Research
Institute
(aka TPR or TPRI or TPRR) in Japan, which produces EM-X liquid
nutritional
supplement, and (apparently) Asia Pacific Natural Agriculture Network
(APNAN),
which produces and distributes EM in much of Asia; APNAN seems to be
related
in some way to International Nature Farming Research Center (INFRC),
mentioned
earlier. There are also a number of smaller regional organizations and
companies in countries in Asia and many lesser-developed countries
which
are also EM technology licensees under EMRO or APNAN or INFRC; one
example
is Community Welfare and Development Society (CWDS) in Nepal.
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More
About EM -- Debunking a Few
EM Myths;
A Brief FAQ
Genetically-modified
Organisms?
Lots of folks nowadays worry
about the possibility of micro-organisms and/or plants being
genetically
modified (GM). From all the information available to me from the web,
as
well as from folks who have used EM for a long time, and from
assurances
and information received directly from the EM organization, there
appears
to be no chance that EM contains any genetically modified organisms
(GMs
or GMOs), and rather, consists of all-natural strains. Dr.
Higa has
assured people of this many times, and in any case, such an approach
would
be totally counter to the philosophy behind EMs development and that of
sustainable natural farming. By the way, the certification of
EM
products as suitable organic farming materials by Organic Materials
Research
Institute (OMRI) automatically certifies that EM is non-GMO
(non-genetically
modified.)
Only Native Local Flora
in EM, or is it a Foreign Culture from Japan?
It has been asserted on
at least two websites (as in a report on EM available on the web from
the
Royal Agricultural College of UK, and also at the EMFSafe/FutureTechToday
website) that the EM formulated for each country or region is
made
up exclusively for that country or region and in that region, using
only
local native strains (species and subspecies) of organisms found
already
in that region. Indeed, the EMFSafe/Future Tech Today website
states
(about EM) that:
"It is formulated
from local flora for the region where it is used."
However, despite the above statement
and the fact that the UK College of Agriculture claims that they were
given
this information by Dr. Higa's people in Japan, it did not at first
appear
to me that this assertion was true, but rather that EM consisted of
organisms
brewed in Japan for global use. Why? Because I was
roundly
assured in late 2002 and early 2003 by three staffers at EMTrading
retail
store that it was not true that EM was brewed uniquely for and in each
region from native local flora, but rather that EM was globally
produced
in Japan from some very special species of organisms with which Dr.
Higa
had worked for a long time.
However, I finally had the
privilege of speaking with a partner in SCD, the parent company of
EMTrading
in early February 2003, and I was able to ask him about this, as he has
trained extensively in EM use around the world, and also trained in
Japan
with Dr. Higa. He was able to reassure me that, despite
earlier information
to the contrary, EM has indeed been brewed by Dr. Higa for different
regions
of the world, using only local native organisms, and that when EM first
desired to create a regional version of EM for the USA (he reports that
a similar culturing project was recently done in Mexico), a team of
scientists
from Dr. Higa's group in Japan came over here and spent considerable
time
studying, identifying and culturing local (native) beneficial
organisms,
and then persuading them to grow synergistically. This
information
has since been verified by folks within EMRO USA So, while
EM is a technology and concept developed in Japan, the organisms used
for
each region are native and local, and are brewed locally.
Is the EM Formula For One Region
Better than the EM for Another?
There is indeed some variance in the exact EM formula and the organisms
within it from region to region, as it uses only native local flora
indigenous
to the region. However, there is no difference in
effectiveness between
the EM for one region and another. Each contains organisms
from the
same three main groups of organisms, and each is effective (more on
this
in The EM Culture and Organisms Section,
later.) This
myth about superiority of certain regional versions got started in the
USA about 10 years ago, and has been really hard to dispel.
It is
simply not true.
When Brewing Activated EM (aka
EM Extension) is Low pH Really
Important?
Is it True that the Lower the pH, the
Better My Batch of EM or
Activated EM?
When brewing Activated EM (aka EM Extension), or evaluating the
condition
of your bottle of EM stock microbial inoculant culture, it is NOT true
that a really low pH, such as 3.7 or below, is important, or that a low
pH means that the batch is better than another with a (somewhat) higher
pH. This myth got started in the USA about 10 years ago, and
has
been really hard to dispel. It is simply not true.
Any batch
of EM or Activated EM with a ph of 4.0 or below (I personally prefer
3.9
or below) is likely fine, and pH should never be the main criteria by
which
the viability and useability of a batch of EM or AEM is
judged. Rather,
appearance and smell (and taste, in many parts of the world!) are the
primary
means of gauging whether a batch is good (as well as a microscopic
analysis
for a more detailed examination....).
An Exception: When AEM is to be Used as
an Antioxidant or Deodorizer
On the other hand, if your primary purpose for the AEM is as an
antioxidant
or deodorizer (which application really employs the antioxidant
properties),
then it is true that longer fermentation times, marked by lower pH,
will
result in a greater amount of antioxidants, greater antioxidative
(reducing)
power, and greater deodorizing power. Likewise, if the purpose for the
AEM or AEM-like brew is as a human nutritional supplement, then again,
you would likely wish to increase the antioxidant properties by
prolonging
fermentation time and producing a product with a lower pH. In
general,
the use of a lower of a lower pH as a benchmark will also insure to an
even greater degree that no harmful organisms will be present in the
final
brew.
Related hint: if your primary purpose
for the AEM is as an antioxidant
or deodorizer, in addition to noting the points above, you may also
wish
to be aware that the antioxidant power (and, concomitantly, the
deodorizing
power) may be increased by using a far higher concentration of molasses
and culture to water than the traditional 1:1:20 employed for
AEM.
For example, a ratio of 1:1:10 or 1:1:8 will yield proportionately
greater
antioxidant activity, although fermentation time will be increased
somewhat.
For making human EM brews, some brewers use molasses:water ratios as
strong
as 1:3 or 1:2 by weight.
Is EM a Disinfectant?
Despite some extant myths, EM is not a disinfectant, but a microbial
inoculant culture product. While it may eventually help to
displace
harmful or non-beneficial microorganisms in many areas and
applications,
it is not true that it is a disinfectant. It will also often discourage
fungal diseases of lawns (golf courses, etc.) such as Fusarium, in one
or two treatments, but that simply means that it is doing its job as a
source of beneficial organisms and in promoting a healthier flora
within
the soil.
It is also true that some commercially-available
dental mouth care products,
such as mouthwash and dental (tooth brushing) powder, contain EM
organisms,
and that lots of folks in many countries simply make their own such
dental
care products at home from EM and related products. However,
this
is once again NOT proof that EM is a disinfectant or antibiotic.
Rather,
in the case of dental or mouth care use, their presence
is that of a
strong probiotic (beneficial organisms) to compete with harmful
organisms,
and because of the powerful antioxidant activity of the EM organisms.
This
myth about EM being a disinfectant got started in the USA about 10
years
ago, and has been really hard to dispel. It is simply not
true.
On the other hand, the EM organisms do create
several environmental
factors in many uses (particularly in the liquid Activated EM brews
produced
by anaerobic fermentation) which tend to discourage the presence and/or
growth of many harmful or "undesirable" species of microorganisms, and
some of these environmental factors are:
- when in anaerobic fermentation, the EM
organisms produce copious
quantities
of lactic acid and smaller amounts of malic, acetic, propionic and
benzoic
acids. These serve to lower the pH, often to below 4.0, which strongly
discourages the growth of many so-called "harmful" organisms.
- many of the above-named acids are mildly
antioxidative, and this
antioxidant
action will also discourage the growth of many undesirable organisms
- when in anaerobic fermentation, the EM
organisms produce a number of
anti-microbial
substances which tend to destroy or discourage a number of undesirable
organisms
So, yes, it may be said that EM potions such as Activated EM (AEM),
which
have been anaerobically fermented, do discourage the growth and
proliferation
of many harmful or undesirable species of organisms in many
applications,
but this is a far cry from saying that it is acting as a
disinfectant.
Will EM Convert My Farm from
Commercial Operations to All-organic
in a Month?
If I Start Using EM, Can I Stop Using all
Fertilizers, Pesticides,
and Soil Amendments?
I have lumped these questions together because they are quite
inter-related.
Basically, it seems to have been established in many places and
numerous
studies that a farm using conventional commercial agriculture
techniques
(synthetic pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers) can
completely
or almost completely cease the use of such practices within two to
two-and-a-half
years of adopting EM technologies and methods. However, this is NOT AT
ALL the same as saying that a farmer may then do any of the following:
- stop all soil testing
- stop use of all soil amendments
- stop adding organic matter (such as compost,
manure, bokashi, or other
ag waste)
While there have been people, including mis-informed horticulturists,
who
have tried such extreme measures, they simply do not work. EM is not a
fertilizer, it is not soil mineral supplement, and is not a magical
cure
which will forever erase the need to ever add organic matter or
minerals
to your soil again. Rather, EM is a powerful collection of organisms
which
can help to re-establish a healthful and life-giving and sustainable
ecology
(eventually establishing a zymogeic balance) in your soil. It
does
not eliminate the need to add organic matter or certain soil
amendments.
To believe otherwise is folly, and a farmer practicing such is likely
doomed
to failure. Nonetheless, some folks, includng some trained farmers,
occasionally
trying this "ignore" method, in other words use EM and totally ignore
the
soil otherwise. Since certain schools of Biodynamic farming
seem,
at first sight, to recommend adding no soil amendments or organic
material
sources (fertilizers) to farm soil, I suspect that these mis-guided
farmers
may be performing an accidental cross-pollination -- in their minds,
and
to their disadvantage -- between their rudimentary knowledge of
Biodynamic
farming and their equally-poor understanding of sustainable farming
practices
aided by use of EM.
I Have a Farm, and it is
Winter-time: Will EM Work in Cold Weather
to Manage Waste Odors and Animal Waste, etc.?
Yes! Let me give you a practical example: I live on a
forested
mountainside in a remote wilderness area in the mountains of Western
Maryland,
and I have about 30 pet birds (chickens, Bantams, turkeys, guinea fowl,
ducks and geese) in my yard, all within two modestly-sized (well, this
is a forested mountainside, not open flat fields!) pens surrounded by
electric
fencing (to keep out the four-legged predators, especially the red
fox!)
Unlike the past few years, the winter of 2003 was been a cold (and
snowy!)
winter, with plenty of nights going down to -2 F and 0 F and plenty of
days never getting above 8 to 11 degrees F. I
started using
EM and EM products with my birds in late December 2002, and my methods
came to a peak (and plateaued) in very early January 2003.
Once I
got my hands on some EM, I made some Activated EM.1 (lets call it AEM;
aka EM Extension) and some batches of bran (and also grain)
bokashi.
Note: my AEM and all AEM dilutions do contain a
bit of the EM Super
Cera C ceramic powder as well!
I have done the following since then, from the
beginning:
- feed the birds bokashi as 5% of their dry grain
(mixed cracked corn and
wheat and barley, some organic, some commercial; I also top-dress their
food with Azomite rock dust and granulated kelp)
- spray their dry grain feed (the other 95%)
lightly with diluted AEM
(1:300
in water)
- inoculate all their drinking water and plastic
goose ponds with AEM at
the rate of about a 1:4,000 dilution or perhaps 1:5,000
- I receive about 250 pounds per week of waste
produce from the local
natural
foods co-op; I lightly spray all of this (from top only) with a spray
of
1:600 AEM.
- in their indoor houses (they have
well-ventilated free-access houses
for
sleeping which are never closed or locked, even at night), I
spray
all accumulations of waste about once every week or two lightly with a
spray bottle filled with AEM diluted about 1:600
- I spray any outdoor accumulations of waste (my
turkeys and guineas have
a favorite spot just outside their shelter, as well as another inside
it)
with the same 1:600 AEM, again once per week or less often (actually,
this
has gone down to once per 10 weeks after the first two months...)
- I have twice gotten really motivated and
sprayed any bare soil areas in
my "big hen" pen (they are hard on soil in the forest) with the same
spray,
only lightly, perhaps 3 ounces per 100 square feet (10 by 10
area).
This needs to be done only rarely.
I have observed the following, despite the cold weather:
- my birds are even happier than before
- my birds are even healthier than before
- my birds, who always awaited their AM feeding
eagerly, now literally
attack
me to get at the grain (loaded with bokashi); --- it is quite
comical....
they will kill me for pure 100% bokashi if they catch me carrying
some....
- there is even far less smell (in their houses
and the pens) than in
early
and mid-December, before using EM, and that was a cold time as well
- their waste accumulations, particularly the
outdoor ones, are starting
to change from wet, oozing, muddy stuff to a fine moist peat-like humus
- their indoor waste accumulations (which I do
not spray diligently, as I
do want them to stay relatively dry) are improving in the same way, but
more slowly. No smell, either!
- the spots of bare earth under massive trees in
the chicken pen have
already
started to improve and look healthier
So, yes, it works and works well in cold and freezing weather, but only
more slowly, as do all "bugs" in the cold weather.
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A
Bit of Background
and History on EM
Basic Overview
Lore has it that Dr. Higa
worked for about 20 years on his Effective Microorganisms formula until
he started to perfect it in the early 1980s. Since Dr. Higa's
fields
of interest were horticulture and agriculture, the primary and first
applications
were found in those fields as well, as a method of preparing a highly
beneficial
compost, and a means of inoculating the soil and soil amendments with
beneficial
organisms. Within a few years, the uses apparently spread to
livestock
management as well, with the organisms used as a probiotic in livestock
and poultry water and feed, and to treat animal wastes, as well as for
odor control.
Bokashi
Many farmers brew up a special
kind of composted bran (or other waste product) for a few days (usually
anaerobically, which means without oxygen present) using EM.
The
finished, fully fermented product is called bokashi, and is then fed to
livestock and poultry as a feed supplement (often at a rate of 3% to 5%
of their feed), and also sprinkled on animal wastes and other
decomposing
organic material to create a highly beneficial and sustainable local
environment,
and, incidentally, one which manages odors and maintains soil health
extremely
well.
Kyusei Nature Farming
and a Link to EM
My understanding is that
Kyusei Nature Farming originated in Japan as a system or school of
organic
and sustainable farming techniques. At some point, apparently
in
the late 1980s, Kyusei Nature Farming and Dr. Higa's EM organisms and
EM-related
techniques apparently discovered each other, and the adoption of EM by
the Kyusei farming movement was apparently quite enthusiastic and
complete.
Indeed, until later 2002, the bottles of EM culture marketed for
agricultural use in the USA by EMTrading were labeled EM
Kyusei, rather than EM Agricultural (or EM
Ag).
As of late 2002, EMRO has
decided to stop using term "Kyusei" in its marketing and
labeling.
Part of the reason for this is that Kyusei Nature farming, while
popular
in Japan, originated as a facet of Japanese religious movement called
Sekai Kyusei Kyo (SKK), founded by Mokichi Okada in 1934,
and thus, to some consumers, the use of the word "Kyusei" may have
given
the incorrect impression that the EM organization had some connection
with
that religion. Likewise, some folks in the EM world believe that the
SKK
folks may have had some concerns about the adoption of the term Kyusei
by the EM world. Hence the decision to stop all use of the term
"Kyusei".
Dr. Higa made clear, in the closing of his first book, that while he
does
greatly admire the philosophy of organic nature farming espoused by
Kysusei
Nature Farming, he is not a follower of the SKK religion, nor
affiliated
with it in any way.
A Bit of Overview on
the History of EM and its Development by Dr. Higa
For a bit of background,
allow me to reproduce here a bit of a recent letter from Matthew Wood,
who is co-founder of SCD, aka EMTrading, a reseller of EM products and
consultancy for the same; their website may be found at http://www.emtrading.com
Matthew, in a recent letter
to me, described one of the ways in which Dr. Higa was led to discover
the basic EM technology:
[from Matthew Wood, co-founder
of SCD:] "By the way, for some reason this reminds me; many years ago
(pre-EM),
Dr. Higa was inspired by the teachings of Dr. Kobayashi regarding
phototrophic
bacteria. Dr. Kobayashi is currently faculty at Kyoto
University.
I believe that Dr. Kobayashi helped found a company called "Bio
Technology
Research, Pty Ltd." in Japan (not sure if this is the exact translation
into English). This company has patented some phototrophic
bacteria
from pure culture, which is particularly successful in wastewater
treatment."
To read Dr. Higa's own brief
narrative of how he developed EM, how EM works and a bit about the
organisms
in it, you may wish to read a paper presented by Dr. Higa at the Royal
Agricultural College of UK, entitled THE TECHNOLOGY OF
EFFECTIVE MICROORGANISMS
– CONCEPT AND PHILOSOPHY at an off-site
page
at http://www.royagcol.ac.uk/research/conferences/higa.htm
The Energetic and Regenerative
Aspects of EM
As will be noted repeatedly in other sections on this website as well,
Dr. Higa and a number of other observers and even clinicians have
asserted
that EM offers tremendous ability -- likely due to its antioxidative
(aka
"reducing") power, to bring higher degrees of structure, order and
coherence
to living beings such as plants, animals and humans. Although
later
sections on this website will delve into this matter more deeply,
including
some of Dr. Higa's writings on the matter, allow
me to reproduce here a portion of a recent letter from Matthew Wood,
who
is co-founder of SCD, aka EMTrading, a reseller of EM products and
consultancy
for the same; their website may be found at http://www.scdworld.com
Matthew studied in Japan
with Dr. Higa, and in his letter to me, described how Dr. Higa views
the
energetic properties of EM:
[from Matthew Wood, co-founder
of SCD (SCD World at www.scdworld.com
):]
"Dr. Higa has been using the
word "hado" in his lectures since before I lived in Japan.
The characters
that make the Japanese word "hado" can be separately translated as
"wave
resonance". He usually uses this in context of "jikki kyomei
hado",
which roughly translates to electo-magnetic wave resonance".
He teaches
that the phototrophic bacteria produce a strong type of
electro-magnetic
wave resonance that is very supportive to animal and plant
growth.
In fact, he teaches that good "hado" from EM can facilitate
DNA to
"correct itself" and express its greatest potential. He also
says
that phototrophic bacteria can take negative or damaging energy, such
as
UV, and turn it into low frequency energy that supports life."
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Commercially-available
EM-Fermented Antioxidant Nutritional Supplements for Humans
There are now several EM-fermented
antioxidant nutritional supplement products (mostly liquid
brews/beverages)
available on the market, even in the Western world, and including the
USA.
To see a full description of each of which I am aware, including
availability,
pricing, and where/how to get them, along with links to relevant vendor
web pages, click
here to go to the Related Fermented Products on the Market
page
at the Antiox
Brew Website, at http://www.antioxbrew.com.
The author of this site is
a degreed scientist with extensive training in the fields of health and
well-being, a mystic and a healer, and the Antiox Brew website linked
above
contains a tremendous amount of information on a line of several
fermented
antioxidant nutritional supplement brews using a microbial culture
derived
from the Effective Microorganisms culture (aka EM-1 or EM1 or EM) which
were direct-marketed on a very small scale at one point during early
2003
to friends and acquaintances under the brand names Sootheox
and Quenchox. To learn
more about these custom-crafted
nutritional supplement brews and some of their nutritional properties,
including results of antioxidant tests from commercial third-party
antioxidant
testing laboratories (along with some funny [but true] photos
of
the ability of such antioxidant supplements to remove rust from rusted
iron), please see the Antiox
Brew
Website, at http://www.antioxbrew.com.
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EM-health e-mail list
group at Yahoo Groups
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This e-mail discussion group
is devoted to the use of Effective Microorganisms (EM or EM-1) in human
and animal health, and related topics such as their use in agriculture
to produce food of higher quality, sometimes known as "beyond-organic"
or "uber-organic". There are already a number of EM fermented
antioxidant
nutritional supplements on the market, with more being developed every
day. The list welcomes beginners, "consumer users" and also serious
researchers.
This list is moderated by Vinny Pinto, a researcher in the fields of
EM1
and nutritional antioxidants, and a peak health consultant/coach. Vinny
is a scientist and health researcher who has devoted a tremendous
amount
of time to research on EM and its uses in health and healing.
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You an Intermediate or Advanced Brewer
of Activated EM (AEM) or EM Brews Intended for Human Use, and Are You
Looking
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The author of
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Vinny Pinto, has authored and published an encyclopedic guide and
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which may help you in brewing high-quality EM fermented antioxidant
secondary
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particularly
Activated EM and EM brews for human and animal ingestion. Are you an
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containing both basic and advanced information, aimed only at the
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Activated
EM, aka AEM, EM Extended and EM Secondary Solution, and also hints on
making
very high quality fermented solid/granular products such as bokashi or
EM-fermented grains for animal feed. Also covers the topic of
ormus
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websites
and on the list groups.
The book is
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Fermented Secondary Products -- an E-book and
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available in both e-book and printed/bound format. For further
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Discounted
Sources for Ordering EM Products
(EM culture,
EM-X, EM Ceramics, etc.) and
EM Fermentation
Supplies
If you are in the USA or nearby countries,
and you wish to purchase
EM products such as EM microbial inoculant culture, EM fermenting
supplies,
bokashi, EM-X health beverage, EM Ceramics, EM Salt, or EM
Soap,
at a discounted price, please check out the major vendors listed below:
SCD World
SCD World is a marketing outreach
of Sustainable Community Development
(SCD) in Kansas (in the USA), they also carry several lines of EM
fermented
antioxidant nutritional supplement beverages, as well as the complete
Garden
of Life line.
Website: http://www.scdworld.com
phone: 913-541-9299 (USA)
Discount: If you wish to earn a 7% discount on all products,
please use the discount code VP2004
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Microbes (EM)™", "Xtra (EM)™" and the logo(s) or
symbol(s) appearing immediately
below are trademarked names and symbols belonging to Sustainable
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Development (SCD)
"EM•1®",
"EMRO USA Effective Microorganisms™", "ProEM-1®" and
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belonging to EMRO USA.
EM-1®
may be a trademarked name belonging to EM Research Organization Japan
(EMRO
Japan).
EM-X®
may be a trademarked name belonging to EM Research Organization Japan
(EMRO
Japan) or Tropical Plant Research Institute (TPRI) in Okinawa.
"Biosa™",
"Vita Biosa™", "Terra Biosa™", "Pet
Biosa™" and the logo(s) or symbol(s)
appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging
to Biosa Denmark.
"Fervita™"
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"Beneficial
Microbes (BM)™"
and "BM Ecology™" and
any logo(s) or symbol(s) appearing below may be trademarked names
belonging
to Crown Biotech and Crown Organics in Australia.
"BM-Technology",
"BIOAAB", "BIOPRIDE", "BIOVET", "BIOCONTROL"
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appearing immediately below may be trademarked names and symbols
belonging
to Nature Farming Research & Development Foundation in Pakistan.
"Lanox™"
and any logo(s) or symbol(s)
appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging
to Lanox-Korea and M21 Environmental Technology Inc., aka Fermented
Antioxidants Research.
"Complex
Fermented Microorganisms™", "Stuff for Food Dregs",
"Time•X™", " Time-X™"
and
any logo(s) or symbol(s)
appearing immediately below are trademarked names and symbols belonging
to Senong Co., Ltd.
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