Been taking Piracetam for years, never seen it come out crystalized like this from Nootropics Depot.

We got a cease and desist from the patent holder. The story behind that is kind of crazy, too. ND carried magnesium L-threonate before I took it over. They sold generic at a good price. When we took it over, it was not one of the ones we initially added back in. I wanted to solve the testing problems with both it and glycinate, as most everyone was testing them improperly. So it took us a bit to solve that and get a good batch of glycinate in. After we got glycinate up, one of our suppliers contacted us and said they had some L-threonate in New York that one of their customers no longer wanted. They agreed to sell it at cost to us if we took delivery. I was not involved in that. My team figured it was a good deal, and knew we wanted to offer it anyway, so they agreed. That's what we initially started selling, and why we could have such a low price. Well nobody on my team knew magnesium L-threonate was patented, and frankly I had forgotten myself. So it did not take long before we got a cease and desist from the company officially licensed to distribute it in the US. We told them that story, and they started laughing. They asked if the shipment was originally going toward a specific vendor, and I confirmed that yes our supplier had said that vendor was originally the one that ordered it, but they refused delivery. They then told me they had just sued that company for selling it outside of patent, and them refusing the shipment was because that was ongoing. So we kind of got duped into buying it. They were very sympathetic to us about the situation, and worked out a fair deal with us to sell out of that and move over to the officially licensed Magtein. It's just that the cost is much higher for Magtein than a Chinese supplier selling at cost to try and unload it, so we had to adjust prices. There's no real way around that, though. It's patented and they are the sole distributors licensed in the US.