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Nutrition, Vitamins & Supplements for Seniors
AARP Pulling Senior Citizen Vitamin Off the Market
After Report on MSNBC
ConsumerLab.com says it finds problems in about
half of vitamins
 January 19, 2007 AARP has pulled its vitamin AARP
Maturity Formula from the market and is offering refunds to purchasers
after an investigation of vitamins was conducted by ConsumerLab.com and
reported on MSNBC and NBCs Today Show. If you're banking on a daily
vitamin to make up for any deficiencies in your diet, you may be getting
a whole lot more or less than you bargained for, says the lead on
this story by Jacqueline Stenson.
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She reports that of 21 brands of multivitamins on
the market in the United States and Canada selected by ConsumerLab.com
and tested by independent laboratories, just 10 met the stated claims on
their labels or satisfied other quality standards.
ConsumerLab.com president Dr. Tod Cooperman told
Stenson he was most concerned about The Vitamin Shoppe Multivitamins
Especially for Women, which he said was contaminated with lead.
Most worrisome, according to ConsumerLab.com
president Dr. Tod Cooperman, is that one product, The Vitamin Shoppe
Multivitamins Especially for Women, was contaminated with lead.
Other problems the lab found were the labels not
matching the contents and the failure of some to dissolve in the amount
of time required to release the beneficial nutrients before passing
through the body.
Cooperman, who appeared on the Today Show, said
vitamins should break apart in 30 minutes to meet the standard set by
the United States Pharmacopeia.
AARP Maturity Formula took 50 minutes.
According to the report by Stenson, Mark Kitchens,
an AARP spokesperson, said the Maturity Formula undergoes routine
testing, and that during testing in November among the attributes
tested was dissolution and it met FDA requirements.
Still, "as precautionary measures to protect our
members" AARP is pulling the product from the market and offering
refunds to anyone who has purchased it, he said.
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Read the full story at MSNBC click here.
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