Comment · Sat, April 5, 2025 · ND Owner
NOW Foods supplements - not quality tested?
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nicj86 · 1 points
Today I spoke to a pharmacist that told me that Now Foods supplements are not quality tested by any health authorities so their supplements can contain 0% of the active ingredients. How true is this? I’ve used them for a while and they seem to be fine
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
That's a total lie. NOW has their own lab, and their lab director knows what she is doing. Their products are never going to have 0% of the actives. That's a silly stupid thing to say. We have tested some of their stuff that has come in below label claim, but never something that was fake or had 0%. The biggest failure was their milk thistle, which had a little over half of what they claimed. That's because they were using UV-VIS to standardize it to silymarins, and that is a shitty methodology that overstates the actives in most things like crazy. That was also a few years back. Our lab director has had multiple discussions with their lab director, and she is trying to hold things to a proper scientific level.