Posted on 02/03/2015 6:34:40 PM PST by Will88
A warning to herbal supplement users: Those store-brand ginkgo biloba tablets you bought may contain mustard, wheat, radish and other substances decidedly non-herbal in nature, but they’re not likely to contain any actual ginkgo biloba.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So many drugs and supplements now come from China and other offshore suppliers, I wonder where these fake herbals came from. Nothing about origin in story. I use one herbal product. Hopefully it is authentic.
/johnny
This is why we need some check and verify regulations such as country of origin labeling, and weights and measures verifying when we pay for a gallon of gas we get a gallon. Integrity is no longer a given in America.
I am not confident that big retailers would not scam their customers.
Based on this statement I call BS on this whole article and their so-called testing process.
Whew. I dodged a bullet. I was afraid they were using herbal adulterants.
If the processing changed the product so much that the supposed active ingredient can't even be found, then I would suspect that the resultant processed product was ineffective.
I don't think they'd do it intentionally. Too much to lose if caught. But no big retailer should sell products such as herbals without some testing in place to ensure it is what it says it is, especially since the raw product is being sourced from many parts of the world, and could have been processed and bottled most anywhere.
A definite quality control breakdown if this story is accurate. Be curious to see what is on Walmarts' supplement shelf later this week. Looks like the story just broke this evening.
I guess we'll find out eventually. The story will probalby last a while since it involves such big name retailers.
Could this mean that Extenze doesn’t really work???
Oh, the horror!
Lol, no comment.
I have to deal with Wal-Mart buyers at their HQ. Price is everything for them, so I’m not surprised people are selling them fakes, and they don’t bother to check.
not necessarily.
I sure miss Smiling Bob in those commercials!
And herbs would be one of the easiest ones to fake. The fraud would be happening among the growers and buyers and the companies that process and encapsulate the herbs. But Walmart definitely should have something in place to test what they are buying and selling periodically.
Color me surprised .... not really, but at least they didn’t put anything really harmful .... just a bunch of inert ingredients, a hoped for placebo effect and a sky high price.
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artificial phoney drugs....what next, cornsilk marajuana cigarettes????
Might explain why herbals always made me itch: apparently most are little more than ground up weeds. BTW, probably nothing special about these brands, most likely almost ALL herbals are ground up weeds and contain little of the actual claimed ingredient.
I gave up on herbals decades ago.
Later. Thanks for the post.
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