Does GMP Compliance mean a quality assurance process providing high quality supplements?

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Fact… 45% of all supplements you buy are defective in some way.  Will the GMP change that?Until now there has been no law requiring the label to accurately tell you what is actually in your bottle of vitamins or supplements.  So the government has begun requiring certification programs that must be verified by an independent lab on all supplements and vitamins.  Starting this year is the GMP or Good Manufacturing Practice.  This verifies quality control, cleanliness, checking the identity and potency of ingredients, and testing of the final products for potency, purity and authenticity.  There will be plant inspections to observe cleanliness.  This was implemented due to truly filthy conditions observed in equipment used to process and bottle supplements.  I saw a picture of one that was processing a powder with cob webs actually inside the machine’s duct work and powder everywhere, on the floor, handles and knobs.  If the powder could get out so easily and spiders could get in, then what insects etc were actually in the powder?Testing will be done on raw materials coming into the plant.  This is due to so many instances of product coming from overseas that were not what they were supposed to be.  In order to make more money the products were “cut” with other less expensive ingredients.  In one instance China added Melamine to baby formula.  Melamine is used to make the plastic place settings sold in department stores.  13,000 children were hospitalized after drinking the tainted baby formula.  22 companies were involved and the contaminated formula was sold all over the world.   Chinese parents were in a panic not knowing what was safe to feed their infants.  Other examples include heavy metals in 25% of products coming from both India and China.  What is happening currently is that manufacturers are buying “boat loads”, literally, of product and just putting them into capsules without any testing to verify the product.Then there will be testing of the final product for potency, purity, and authenticity.  Potency just means that the amount listed on the label is actually the amount in the bottle.  For example is there really 500 mg of Vitamin C in each pill?  Many times the making of the finished product uses heat which destroys some of the potency, but the label lists the original potency in the raw product.  Let me give you an example, whey comes from milk.  One way it is taken out of the milk keeps just about all the whey protein.  Another way to remove whey involves heat which is cheaper, but destroys the protein.   Labels will be required to reflect this difference in potency.   Purity means that the final product contains no contaminants, like heavy metals, insect parts or melamine.  Authenticity means that the final product is what it says it is, that a bottle of calcium really is calcium. Until now 10% of what you buy on the shelf doesn’t even have the main, active, ingredient in it.  Sometimes it is just a powder or pill that looks like the real thing.  One of the articles I read said some company’s product was not what it was supposed to be.  It turned out the independent lab that was doing the testing for the manufacturer was using “visual testing” to tell if the product was pure or not.   It entailed putting some type of light on the powder and if the product glowed then it was considered pure.   What they didn’t take into consideration was that other powders also glow under that same light and this was not a good test of purity for this particular product, while chemical testing easily showed it had been “cut” with something else.The upside to all this is obvious, that we will “really” get what we are paying for.  It will provide the health benefit we bought it for and it won’t make us sick from contaminates, but there is a down side. Foreign suppliers will have to send the real thing or we won’t buy it.  With all the super cheap products no longer available, the demand and the price for the real thing will go up.  Manufacturers will have to replace outdated equipment, set up quality controls and in-house testing or hire independent labs. Some will not be able to afford the updates and will go out of business.  Even if they are able to upgrade, they will still have to pass government testing in order to be certified and some will not pass.  Those manufacturers that do survive will see a higher demand for their products, but most likely will still pass the increased cost along to us, making our supplements cost more.   The silver lining is that there are manufactures out there that already do all this and won’t be effected, and have always given us the best possible products.  Now everyone will know who they are, sometime in 2009 you will start to see symbols on the certified products testifying to their quality.  Look for the GMP stamp of approval.

My site http://www.thebestproteinshakes.com compares 12 different protein suppliments.  It discusses how to read and understand the labels on protein bottles.  Then helps you to find the best protein shake to fit your needs and meet your goals.The most common Certification Symbol can also be found there.ReferencesDr Richard Kones  at Texas Medical Center for Health ManagementDr Hubbard on NewsMax HealthSuppliment Quality.comWill Burgin at PureBody Nutrition

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