Q And so what did you do? I mean, you get to locate a co-packer, a manufacturer.
A Yeah, so from Googling, you know, energy bar, nutrition bar, protein bar manufacturers, we ended up finding a place actually in, in New York State that was willing to take us on. And, and we did have a challenge in that crickets, uh, Have an allergen overlap with shellfish. So any bar mini-bacter that was going to run us would have to disclose to their other customers that they were bringing in a shellfish allergen. And as you can imagine, that's not a very normal allergen for protein bars. And so we got a lot of no's. I mean, there, there, there was basically one place that was willing to do the full allergen clean after we were to run to To let us produce there.
AI assessment note: “from Googling... we ended up finding a place actually in, in New York State”