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Re: fish oil, arthritis, and mercury

Posted by tealady on August 22, 2003, at 21:03:24

In reply to Re: fish oil, arthritis, and mercury » Bill L , posted by Larry Hoover on August 22, 2003, at 10:22:08

> > I was reading about a fish oil preparation advertised by a physician who said that his preparation was more expensive because he used an expensive filtering device to eliminate almost all of the mercury. From what you are saying, it sounds like he was being less than honest. I can't remember the guy's name right now.
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I was reading yesterday about this too...http://www.iherb.com/fishoil1.html I think the Rx Omega 3 by Dr Murray. It certainly implies that some other fish oils contain mercury by the statement "only fish product in the market that has the wording " Pharmaceutical Grade" on the label.
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> If the phrase "molecularly distilled" rings a bell, then he was being less than honest. That phrase comes from the website of the wholesaler which produces the vast majority of all fish oil products in North America. Frankly, the very term molecularly distilled is bad science. As a chemist, I cringe every time I see it.

Yep,saw that too on iherb, couldn't figure out what it meant.

I was told yesterday by a company selling fish oil here that they purchase the top grade of 5 grades of fish oil. Also they don't remove the mercury from fish oil as(according to this guy) chlorine is used to remove the mercury and then people have "green urine", so it's better to leave the mercury in.....on the lesser evil argument
I did find the "green urine" bit hard to believe!

Lar thank you for explaning it,

I have just been told today that the Australian standards are .05? for fish oil in mercury and it is all tested.
I have ordered some MaxEpa which apparently is sourced from deep water fish, and the fish oil is sourced from England, then tested for mercury levels in Australia..according to a naturopath I have just been speaking to. Guess there must be traces of mercury still in the oil?
You'd think the Australian southern waters would be ideal to set up a "clean fish" oil industry from, instead of sourcing from o/seas,sigh.
The doc who I got the idea of mercury in fish from is http://www.mercola.com/2001/apr/25/mercury_fish.htm but that is fish, not fish oil.

Thanks for explaining all of this..just spent a day trying to figure it out, lol.


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