5 Facts- The Hazards of Buying Counterfeit Hoodia Gordonii

Question # 1: Does the vendor that you are buying from allow anonymous, random, and ongoing product testing of their Hoodia by an independent lab? Also, and just as crucial, are they only sending in a batch sample with a lot number for testing?

Here's why.

Some unscrupulous vendors will display their lot numbers and results from a lab considered to be very reputable. However, the only way to know that this is undisputable proof of the hoodia product's potency is if the company permits ongoing, random and anonymous testing of the actual product that the consumer buys from them. This testing should be completely verifiable, and the testing should be done without the vendor knowing the exact place that the products were to be tested, , where purchased and when the products were tested. The results of each of these tests should be displayed right on the testing laboratory's website.

Question #2 Purity? Is there an easy way to check to see if the hoodia product is made stricly from pure South African Hoodia Gordonii? There should be no additives or fillers.

There is a way that you can determine the purity of the hoodia. On the label, look under the "Supplement Facts" section of the label. Does it declare explicitly that there are no additives? It does this by placing the word "None" in the "Other Ingredients" block. If there is anything else other than "None" in that space, it's not pure hoodia gordonii.

Unless a manufacturer explicitly declares "Other ingredients" as "None," it can list any fillers and additives as "Other ingredients" and legally declare the product's full gross weight as being Hoodia gordonii. This is called the O.I. (Other Ingredients) label trick.

The manufacturers are allowed by the government to use "flow agents" to make the manufacturing process easier.

The use of silica, cellulose, magnesium stereate, etc. can be easily avoided. However, scammers know that simply by declaring them on their labels as "Other Ingredients," they can exploit a gaping loophole in the law at the customer's expense. Therefore, they continue to do so.

With the new high compression encapsulation machines, it's not necessary to load up the capsules with fillers and additives- yet still be able to call it "pure". It might cost more to do so, but it's the right thing to do.

Avoid the common "Bait and Switch" practice in which less than reputable vendors spoon-feed the lab a genuine sample, but then sell the public a counterfeit or watered-down product.

Question #3: Is the hoddia that you are wanting to purchase claim to be Hoodia Gordonii of South African origin, or just plain "hoodia"? There are more than 20 varieties of Hoodia known to man, and the only one that has been proven to reduce calorie intake in humans is the South African hoodia. If you see "Chinese Hoodia" for example, you should consider it counterfeit.

Question #4- What part of the hoodia plant does the product come from? It should be made from the biologically active part of the Hoodia gordonii Succulent. You need to find out if the vender stricly uses the peeled stem from the hoodia gordonii plant.

Never buy Hoodia gordonii from companies using the "whole plant" or anything other than the peeled stems; such a product would automatically contain at least 50% less of Hoodia gordonii's active constituents necessary for effective appetite suppression.

The P57-active part of Hoodia gordonii-the peeled stem, NOT the bark, NOT the flowers, and NOT the root. This (peeled stem) is the part that is effective for appetite suppression.

Question #5: How potent is the hoodia that you are planning to buy? Is it made up of the highest potentcy possible? This takes atleast 3 and a half years for the stems to grow before the farmers harvest them.

When you get hoodia milled from immature plants, it may test "positive" for Hoodia , but will have insufficient P57 to suppress your appetite. Hoodia loses it's strength when exposed to or dried in open sunlight, in kilns above a certain tempeature, or when milled above certain micron levels.

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