Posted on 03/02/2010 4:32:24 PM PST by decimon
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) A group including a California nonprofit organization is suing fish oil manufacturers and pharmacies that sell the popular supplements over their purported toxicity.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in San Francisco Supreme Court, claims that the makers and sellers of certain supplements found to contain high levels of PCB compounds -- man-made industrial chemicals -- have failed to alert consumers as required under California's right-to-know law.
The Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation, one of three named plaintiffs, tested 10 fish oil supplements out of more than 100 on the market. The other plaintiffs in the case are New Jersey residents.
Defendants include the world's largest producer of omega-3 fish oil, Houston-based Omega Protein, as well as drug stores Rite Aid Corp and CVS Caremark Corp.
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As someone who once worked closely in this industry, I can tell everyone that this is absolute BS.
This organization detected extreme, EXTREME trace amounts of PCB’s in these products(billionths of a gram) that are widely legal everywhere BUT California. and within the safety range required by the FDA.
This organization also went out and cherry-picked like a mother. They seemed to have deliberately tested the fish that would most likely have contaminants.
Anyone with common sense knows that shark and cod tend to be highly contaminated. PCB’s are found in all fish and its not unreasonable to expect small trace amounts in oils derived from the livers of the dirtiest fish out there.
Do notice that this organization did not go out and test regular fish oil with one exception. They managed to test NOW’s cod liver and shark liver oil, but did they test their distilled fish oil? Heavens no. That goes for most of the other popular fish oil products on the market.
The amounts that were found are legal everywhere else and this group just happened to ignore the very supplements that have been previously tested before and shown to be safe. Yet this doesn’t stop them from attempting to attack all fish oils on the market, regardless of source and condemn a worthy and valuable supplement.
Out of all the products tested, almost every single one is from shark or cod liver oil. You don’t think that there’s an agenda at work here?
Thanks for the info.
The other plaintiffs in the case are New Jersey residents.And the jokes just continue to write themselves.
What brands do you recommend?
Cheers!
If you only mess up once every 11 years, you’ll be ok. ; ) lol.
Thank you BUMP.
I’ve gotten to the point that I’ll only buy “Natural Factors Wild Alaskan Salmon Oil”
Lots of the others also have flax oil mixed in, which isn’t the best idea for men, and some also have Canola which is crazy.
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