When it comes to dietary supplements, writes staff writer Jon Anderson, you don’t always get what you pay for:
That’s what researchers found after a battery of recent tests conducted on everything from sleep aids to sex boosters. Setting aside whether the supplements actually work, the tests were designed to check whether the ingredients on the label matched the products inside. Conducted by the nutrition watchdogs at Consumer Lab, the tests also compared often wildly fluctuating prices for essentially the same products.
“There are plenty of rip-offs out there,” says Consumer Lab president Dr. Tod Cooperman. About one out of every five products his researchers test fails to pass basic quality standards that include having too much or not enough of the amounts claimed on the package — and sometimes none at all. Others contain dangerous levels of lead or other potentially dangerous ingredients.
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