http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/sidebar-whats-in-those-supplements/?
The New York State attorney general’s office accused four
national retailers on Monday of selling dietary supplements that were
fraudulent and in many cases contaminated with unlisted ingredients.
The authorities said
they had run tests on popular store brands of herbal supplements at the
retailers — Walmart, Walgreens, Target and GNC — which showed that
roughly four out of five of the products contained none of the herbs
listed on their labels. In many cases, the authorities said, the
supplements contained little more than cheap fillers like rice and
house plants, or substances that could be hazardous to people with food
allergies.
At GNC, for example,
the agency found that five out of six samples from the company’s
signature “Herbal Plus” brand of supplements “were either unrecognizable
or a substance other than what they claimed to be.” In pills labeled
ginkgo biloba, the agency found only rice, asparagus and spruce, an
ornamental plant commonly used for Christmas decorations.
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