This question needs to be asked: what is Nutra testing for if not lead, mercury, etc in fish oil??? Who the hell sells fish oil that hasn't been tested for these things, when there is a long and well-known list of contaminents in the fish used for commercial fish oil???
FTR, I do not use Nutra fish oil nor any other Nutra products anymore. I stopped after the release of the touted "Platinum Series", which promised COAs on every batch. Meanwhile, most products didn't have COAs on the website, and the few that did were from several years ago. Testing a product once does not exempt said product from all future testing.
There are plenty of quality fish oils out there that are stringently tested and are not terribly expensive. I use Carlson now almost exclusively. Personally, I wouldn't come anywhere near Nutra fish oil.
I will post the same thing here as I sent another member via PM:
I certainly understand your frustration, and share it with you...not only do I have my crippled dog taking large doses of this, I had my wife who just delivered our first child on this as well. If this product is contaminated, then honestly, I have much more problems than just a few unhappy customers.
And this is really my fault.
For all of our bulk powders, we do all of the testing. For all of our capped products, since we do not do any pf the packaging, we do not do the testing and instead rely on the word of the supplier in conforming to the COA since they are they ones who have to comply to the GMP specifications.
When purchasing our fish oil, I gave a list of peramiters that the product must comply to (what is stated on our website, mercury, toxins, etc). Our supplier ensured me their product was sufficient and so I purchased it. It is common practice that companies will not divulge third party testing, even if that testing is positive, so I took our supplier's word that they had complied with GMP protocol as they should have. Now of course it turns out that it was not that they did not want to divulge the info, but they simply had not done it.
It is a shame, because this is something that the new GMP guidelines...which everyone must conform to...was supposed to fix.
Again, this is solely my fault and I am taking full responsibility.
I have a call out this morning to San Raphael in California who does all of our testing on raw materials to see how quickly they can turn around a heavy metals test. Usually they take 14 days, but obviously we'd pay for the priority status on this to have it to you and anyone else who wants it ASAP.
