ABC News had something this week on supplements taken by amateur athletes. They analyzed the products and none contained what it said on the label,they couldn't figure out what was in some except for toxic contaminants. They then showed videos of the factories in China that produced them, dirty conditions, certainly not sterile.
I was signed up for OTC supplement warnings issued by the FDA for a while, turned it off because the amount of email was overwhelming! ABC is quite right - stuff coming out of China is horrendous, and many of the "body building" and "male enhancement" stuff coming out of there is full of more than nasty contaminants - they contain real steroids and/or real viagra/cialis, believe it or not! I think some of the pro athletes busted for steroids really were "sorta innocent", in that they didn't know they were taking them - no excuse for not running something past the team trainers first though.
I'll stick with FDA monitored products like Vascepa.
Me too - most here know I take lots of (high quality) supplements, see my doc every three months to run everything by him, but even I wouldn't dream of trying to take 4 g of OTC EPA/day, not worth the risk, let alone cost.
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