[WilliamofCarmichael]

Blueberry and Bilberry extract ". . . one extract obtained from China . . . measured anthocyanin content of 24% when analyzed using the simple spectrophotometric method . . the same extract was analyzed with a more sophisticated HPLC method, only 9% anthocyanins were found. Further testing by HPLC, mass spectroscopy (MS), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) confirmed that the “bilberry powdered extract” from China was adulterated with the napththylazo sulfonic acid dye known as amaranth dye . . . also known as the coloring agent FD&C Red No. 2, or, more commonly, as Red Dye No. 2, was banned by FDA in 1976 due to its suspected carcinogenicity."

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Just to be certain.. my reply above about Red China's blueberry and bilberry extract does not mean the pills. Red China supplied the extract to the supplement makers.

I do everything I can to avoid anything made in Red China. They killed an estimated 60 million of the their own -- all contemporaneous events for me since Mao's "agrarian reformers" took over. They sure don't give a sh!t about a few of us Americans.

[freedumb2003]

>>known as the coloring agent FD&C Red No. 2, or, more commonly, as Red Dye No. 2, was banned by FDA in 1976 due to its suspected carcinogenicity.”<<

I remember that! That was the year when all the Christmas candy canes were green (since I think the ban hit too quickly for alternatives).