Posted by utopizen on June 13, 2011, at 6:43:27
In reply to Re: Going back to old-school - lithium., posted by desolationrower on June 11, 2011, at 13:50:09
> I should say while 'purified' fish oil isn't important, not being rancid might be important.
>I store mine in the refrigerator, too-- but keep in mind any rancid product would have more to do with Quality Assurance discipline at the plant, not the consumer.
Remember Able Labs? It was a fairly large generics company that went under in 2005 after it was cited by the FDA for "sanitation" and had a mass recall of all their stuff.
There's other terms that also mean sanitation when a recall is made, but sound more benign... anyhow, that basically means rat waste from the ceiling, etc. is being found. Honestly, you have to be doing a bad job for the FDA to ask for such a thing- it's not like some health inspector having a bad day.
At any rate, avoid independent nature food store-branded fish oil-- they were one of the very few cited by Greenpeace or some other environmental group in a lab sampling of all of the major makers. It's easy enough to google "fish oil independent rankings environmental toxins" or such.
The biggest violator was a company that I've never seen before, but markets to health food stores (tiny ones), letting them brand the health food's name on the package. It included some toxin that was a huge deal. Most actually passed with flying colors, including Nature Made.
There's a $46 bottle (of 30) that's sold at Whole Foods. I use to buy it. If I had vast amounts of money, I'd justify it still, but it's just unreasonable. They claim they do all this stuff to it, but even their own marketing seems to basically reduce itself to "you don't have to take more pills because it's more potent."
It's used in research, likely because they use the Oral-B trick my dentist tipped me off to: if you give a profession something for free, it's remarkable how often they use it themselves.
Since they're referring to 3-4/day of the fish oil capsules their $12 competitors' dosing is, I'd rather oppress myself with the drudgery of swallowing an additional gulp of water after taking my 3rd or 4th dose.
I asked the $47/bottle company if I could be spared free bottles, as I'm poor and it would be like pharmaceutical assistance-- given they're so into marketing themselves as "pharmaceutical-grade"-- They never got back to me.
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