DD Support Board and Research Team

[DragonBear]

Who knows what the shelf life of this product is

The Snorenz product is probably indefinite. A couple of vitamins mixed with peppermint oil. Who even cares if the vitamins could degrade. It's the snort of peppermint oil that gets the nose to run.

My research on their animal blue-green liquid physcocyanin product does indicate when in liquid form the physcocyanin does degrade, and probably significantly in a month. I have not been able to find any indication MDIN lists the concentration in percent or mg form.

There is one experimental lab study (not company associated) I ventured across where the dosage was 200mg/kg. For the owner of that 70 lb lab who visited us, that translates to 6.2 gms of physcocyanin per day. Solubility of PC is 0.5mg/ml. MDIN recommends "2-3 drops" - let's make it an even 4 drops which is approx 0.2 mg. Let's assume the MDIN product has the max 0.5 mg/ml, although it's probably far less. Then puppies are getting 0.1 mg, twice a day. And that's assuming no degradation in the PC, which does happen in liquid form. Meanwhile the lab study was using 6,200 mg per day to demonstrate an effect on a rat. Here we are talking about rats again.

So it's really up to the likes of a Walgreens, and what their policy is for shelf life. Doubtful they are going to accept monthly shipments, and let it pile up in their warehouses if it's not selling. Why not return the peppermint oil? Or the HealthEnrich pet product where it doesn't matter what the shelf life is as the product itself is a farce. That's assuming MDIN can overcome the inventory problems you cite to actually ship it.