The newest examination from NOW’s (Bloomingdale, IL) award-winning testing program, demonstrated “profound high quality and labeling failings proceed” for SAMe samples bought on Amazon in October 2024. That is the nineteenth spherical of testing NOW has carried out.
NOW beforehand investigated “suspicious” SAMe (S-adenosylmethionine) dietary supplements from Amazon in March 2020 with all 11 testing at low efficiency and two testing at zero efficiency, the corporate stated.
NOW stated it selected to analyze SAMe once more as a result of the product is dear and types “seem to cheat frequently with pricey merchandise.” Within the re-examination, NOW gathered a brand new spherical of samples from extra manufacturers to see if anyone corrected their false claims. In October 2024, NOW bought two bottles every of 24 “suspicious” SAMe dietary supplements from Amazon to check in-house and externally at Eurofins.
In accordance with NOW, it selected some manufacturers as a result of they gave the impression to be “mislabeled primarily based on excessively excessive efficiency claims.” It additionally selected a number of gummy dietary supplements as a result of “SAMe is unstable and may degrade rapidly resulting from moisture and warmth.” All of the samples had been examined utilizing high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
In accordance with NOW’s report, 20 of the 23 manufacturers (excluding its personal model) failed efficiency testing, and 16 of the 23 manufacturers contained lower than 20 p.c of label efficiency. Six manufacturers contained zero efficiency together with each gummy merchandise. Additionally, 5 manufacturers that failed in 2020 failed once more with one containing zero efficiency and three containing lower than 20 p.c, NOW stated.
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