Protein scam or not?

[sguthrie]

Read a copy of supplent reveiw. The was a unbias company who took several products from all the big name companys, and had each product analized to see if it matched label claims. Only a few companys actually matched their labels. Some were actually over and some only had 50% of what they were claiming. The book is a good buy because you will learn which companys are good and which companys like ripping off the customer. They were later on taken to court by the companys who did not do so good. Guess, what musce tech was one of the companys.

Are you sure? The supplement review I've seen is published by Bill Phillips of EAS. He makes it pretty clear who he is, so you msut have a different one.

 

[rippedup]

Bump.

Can anyone who has this supplement review book tell us more about the results published.

Thanks.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

Officially they have to be within 5% of the label claims in the US.

this applies to food... not sure that it applies to "supplements" if so it is not enforced AT ALL

 

[riskybizz007]

I read a while back when they checked the protein content in whey products, Optimum's was the closest to the label. Others were close, and still you know there will always be those that never were even close to the claims. Same thing w/ other supplements.

 

[DR. NOE]

Are you sure? The supplement review I've seen is published by Bill Phillips of EAS. He makes it pretty clear who he is, so you msut have a different one.

I still have the book, when I get home I will check the name out.

 

[DR. NOE]

Sorry guys, I had the name of the book wrong, it's called lab test review. Looking at some of muscle techs crap..their label showed 6 grams of creatine in creatine 6000-ES, the test came back showing there was only 2 grams. All your big companys are in this book, and amazing how many of them are ripping us off. There were some companys that were dead on also.

 

[chillin408]

Some time ago, I came across some threads about that book on usenet. If I remember correctly, they were sued by at least one big supplement company. How did optimum's protein do, percentage wise?

 

[BackDoc]

I think I remember Optimum's protein doing poorly in an independant lab analysis. May have changed since then but I'm not willing to gamble.

Agreed. Go with what you have faith in.

 

[Lguy00]

yeah i actually heard the same thing awhile ago i don't know if it was in an add or an actually study though

 

[DR. NOE]

Some time ago, I came across some threads about that book on usenet. If I remember correctly, they were sued by at least one big supplement company. How did optimum's protein do, percentage wise?

Looking at the book, they did not have good measuring controls Their creatine was 35.7% under the label claiim. Their protein did better and was 34.6 over the label claim. Sodium was 128% over the label claim.