Monday, May 27, 2024

How many Spring Valley (Walmart) supplements are fake (synthesized lab solutions)? Fish Oil pills & Tea Tree Oil are fake: what else?

 Update: I opened up the "mini-calcium" soft gels. I can see the super white titanium dioxide and the soy oil but there's absolutely no "chalky" calcium carbonate that I can see. I know what calcium carbonate dust is like since I just started grinding up the Nature's Made U.S. source calcium carbonate pills. So I have no reason NOT to think the Spring Valley mini-calcium softgels are also fake.

 https://doctorscotts.com/ny-attorney-general-findings-supplements/

 I bought Spring Valley tea tree oil from Walmart - the first time I used it even though I knew it could NOT be Tea Tree oil - tasted like maybe watered down methanol? A chemical taste. I survived that experience but the price being less than half of other tea tree oil drew me back in. I bought two more bottles probably a year later (when the first one was a distant lost memory).... This time I read the reviews and several people insisted this is NOT Tea Tree oil - they returned their bottles and so did I.

So that naturally led me to question Spring Valley as a whole - as I scrutinized the "Made in China, sourced from South Africa and Australia" tea tree oil...

Sure enough - as of this March - a Spring Valley fake Fish Oil class action lawsuit got settled.

 Walmart Inc. will settle a proposed class action alleging the discount store operator mislabeled a “Spring Valley 1000 mg Fish Oil” dietary supplement as fish oil, when it was actually “a lab synthesized solution.”
Feb 3, 2015Walmart: Six "Spring Valley" brand herbal supplements per store were purchased and analyzed: Gingko Biloba, St. John's Wort, Ginseng, Garlic ...

On February 3, The New York Times reported that the New York State Attorney General’s office issued cease-and-desist letters requiring GNC, Target, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart to stop selling certain dietary supplements for herbs like gingko, ginseng, and Echinacea. According to the letters, an investigation conducted by the Attorney General’s office genetically tested several popular dietary supplements and determined that many of the products “were either unrecognizable or a substance other than what they claimed to be.” These substances include various allergens that were not identified in the supplements’ ingredients lists, such as wheat and beans.

According to the Attorney General’s press release, just 21% of test results from store brand herbal supplements verified DNA from the plants listed on the products’ labels. Only 4% of Wal-Mart products showed the correct plant DNA in testing. In contrast, 35% of product tests identified DNA from plant species that were not included on the label or ingredients list.

 Spring Valley vitamins are affordable and widely available, but have also attracted enormous controversy in recent years. Hundreds of different Spring Valley supplements remain available in Walmart stores and online, but have been stripped of "third-party verified" labeling that was deemed potentially misleading.

 https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-222

 CBS News reported that Walmart's Spring Valley house brand had the worst showing of all the companies evaluated, with only 4 percent of their products showing DNA from the plants they were supposed to contain.

An online supplement industry magazine reported that, per a statement from Walmart, in 2014 the company began removing the "verified by an independent, certified laboratory" statement from new labels on its Spring Valley products. The process was reportedly complete as of 2016. Per the same source, Walmart also provided $100,000 to the Iowa Attorney General's office — which reportedly had a hand in spurring the change in labels — for refunds to consumers in that state.

 

 

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