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OTC Fish Oil Supplement Math doesn't add up

Before being put on a 4g daily dose of Vascepa, I used to take a 1200 mg OTC Fish Oil Supplement.
Of the 1200mg, the amount of Omega-3's in the capsule was 360 mg.
Contained in the 360 mg of Omega-3's were EPA, DHA, and 'other Fatty Acids'.
There's no breakdown of the ratio of EPA/DHA on the product label, but if you assume that 50% of the 360 mg of the Omega-3 content is EPA, you get 180 mg of EPA.

To get the same amount of EPA on the OTC supplement that you get in a 4g daily dose of Vascepa, you would have to take:

4000mg/180 mg = 22.22 x 1200 mg OTC Fish Oil Capsules per day

Each bottle of the OTC 1200 mg Fish Oil supplement contains 100 capsules, which means that a bottle of this quantity would last 4.5 days, which means one would have to take 6.67 bottles of 100 capsules 1200 mg OTC supplement per month to get the same amount of EPA contained in 120 Vascepa capsules.

Vascepa wins hands down.