Folks buying gingseng, ginko biloba and neither contain even trace amounts of the actual product. I mean damn, fake honey, fake olive oil, fake supplements ish is out of control!

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.



From GNC, Herbal Plus brand:

Gingko Biloba:

No gingko biloba found
Did detect allium (garlic), rice, spruce and asparagus

St. John’s Wort

No St. John’s Wort found
Did detect allium (garlic), rice and dracaena (a tropical houseplant)

Ginseng

No ginseng found
Did detect rice, dracaena, pine, wheat/grass and citrus

Garlic

Contained garlic

Echinacea

No echinacea found
Did detect rice in some samples

Saw Palmetto

One sample contained the clear presence of palmetto
Other samples contained a variety of ingredients, including asparagus, rice and primrose

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