PCB's in Fish Oil Caps

[NACanada]

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/03/02/consumer-fish-oil-pcb.html

PH

[NACanada]

Another classic example of getting what you pay for.

Ascenta Health does 3rd party testing on every batch. You can even go to their website and use your lot number to find the COA of that batch...PCB's are included in every batch test.

PH

[St]

Glad my Swiss is test for it.

The lawsuit names six international manufacturers of fish oil and two drugstore chains: CVS Pharmacy, Inc.; General Nutrition Corp.; Now Health Group, Inc.; Omega Protein Inc.; Pharmavite LLC (Nature Made brand); Rite Aid Corp.; Solgar Inc.; and TwinLab Corp.

[tiramisu]

My understanding is that the "distilled" fish oil is free of pcb's but am still looking for confirmation.

[NACanada]

I've heard this too.

The environment the fish is coming from is also important. PCB levels (and others) in water where there is soil contamination can change between seasons as things such as water temp, water level, currents etc can affect leaching. That's why I personally love the Ascenta brand.