Amarin Corp Plc (AMRN)

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What do you think “regulated by FDA” actually means? Do you think FDA visits Amarin’s manufacturers or swipes a bottle of Vacsepa and does chemical analysis of it every 6 months? Or requires Amarin run CoAs routinely and submit them to FDA? You don’t actually know what “regulated by FDA” means, do you?

In actuality, OmegaVia is better regulated than Vascepa. There is just a lot of misinformation out there as to what the quality of an FDA approved drug product entails. Another example is vitamin D. There are prescription forms, for infants etc., or you may purchase them as supplements and save some money. Physicians “prescribe” supplements all the time, perhaps advising certain brands as more reliable, and that is that. Everything does not need a script. The ones apparently most bothered by the idea of taking OmegaVia EPA instead of Vascepa are AMRN bulls. Imagine why?

Do as you wish, but as a physician, recommending patients take a lower than recommended dose of a brand name “drug” to save them money when there are cheaper, better absorbed alternatives out there, is not good practice.

Regards,
-MRC