This is a country that could care less if a billion died and we get our vitamins from them?
as a guy who sells vitamins, I have been on this like white on rice. The American vitamin and supplement industry can be roughly divided into three groups: 1)Those who test everything and carefully, 2) Those who tend to have lower standards but still do a lot of testing or else trust their suppliers, and 3) Those who can’t afford to and just trust their suppliers.
The Solgars, Twinlabs, Country Lifes, and Nature’s Plus’s of the world are in group 1, as well as the larger private label labs. Nature’s Plus puts a little piece of paper in many, if not all, bottles that has the test data results from an analytical lab for the ingredients in that lot of product. NOW also does a lot of testing.
Most of the mid-tier suppliers will tend source out testing and the really small local suppliers show little inclination
to do their own testing.
That's good to know. I use exclusively TwinLabs because they're easy to swallow and digest because they're capsules.
This thread is scary. Necessary and scary.
I am now wondering about all of the vitamins and minerals I am taking from Andrew Lessman on HSN. Called his ProCaps Laboratories and they stated that the information on where he gets his ingredients is “proprietary”. This word is starting to worry me as I am hearing it from all of the tainted pet food companies.