Saturday, April 28, 2007

Progress in Supplement Search

I have made some progress on the supplement search. USP, which is for the United States Pharmacopoeia, is an independent certification agency which verifies potency and purity of nutritional supplements. I still have found no natural and organic products which are also USP certified.

These products are USP certified:

Nature Made, Nature's Resource, Kirkland, Equaline, Berkley and Jensen, Nutriplus, Q-Gel, Sun Mark, Tru Nature, Your Life, and at least some product from Puritan's Pride.
If a product is USP certified it will have a USP seal on it.

In 1994, for some strange reason, a new law was passed and supplements were no longer checked for potency or purity. Therefore, we are taking pills that could contain anything or any dose. They also stopped having companies prove their claims, instead proof was on the FDA to prove a supplement was harmful.

How do we protect ourselves? One way would be to take no supplements. In my view this is harmful choice. Another way is to speak with your pocketbook and buy USP supplements. Please email me if you know of a company which is USP certified plus natural and organic , but only if you won't gain from passing on the info.

The spiritual counterpart is to be equally guarded in what we let enter our mind and spirits. Phil 4:8 Always think about what is pure. Think about what is noble, right and pure. Think about what is lovely and worthy of respect. If anything is excellent and worthy of praise, think about those kind of things.

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