Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil...
Whats the Hype?
Pharmaceutical-Grade Fish Oil
According to product marketers the manufacturing of 1 mg of pharmaceutical-grade fish oil concentrate requires nearly 100 kgs of health food-grade fish oil sold in supermarkets, drug stores, and health food stores. It has also been suggested that producing pharmaceutical-grade fish oil concentrates requires state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities to assure maximum EPA/DHA purity and concentration of long chain omega-3 fatty acids essential for eicosanoid modulation.
Pharmaceutical-Grade Fish Oil
Manufacturing Process
Step 1
Extraction of fish oil
Step 2
Winterization - remove limited amounts of saturated fats
Step 3
Absorption - remove heavy metals
Step 4
Preliminary Molecular Distillation - refining ‘touch up" to reduce pcb’s and cholesterol
Step 5
Oil conversion into ethyl esters
Step 6
Ethyl Ester Thermal Fractionation - remove additional saturated fats
Step 7
True Molecular Distillation - final refining to assure removal of all manmade pollutants such as pcb’s
and long-chain monoenes
Step 8
Pharmaceutical-grade fish oil concentrates
Step 9
Quality Control - prior to packaging OmegaRx pharmaceutical-grade fish oil concentrates are subject to rigorous
analysis and are certified by an Independent Laboratory for final certification before product formulation. We
guarantee that our pharmaceutical grade fish oil concentrate products meet or exceed the following product
specifications:
EPA > 40%
DHA > 20%
EPA/DHA > 65%
Total W-3 > 75%
Total Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids > 85%
PCB < 10ppb/g
While we do not doubt that pharmaceutical-grade fish oil is of the highest quality we feel there a number of high qualify fish oil supplements on the market that can also provide you with remarkable results.
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fish oil supplments.
"I've never been much of a believer in supplements. However, after repeated invitations from my wife I started taking Omega 3 Fish Oil. Consequently, my cholesteral levels have improved and I've never felt so healthy."
"Since I started supplementing with high-dose fish oil nearly 8 months ago my skin has not been nearly so dry, my allergies have almost entirely gone away and my general health appears to be improving."
"After one month of taking fish oil, my husband starting noticing positive changes in the texture of his hair, and his blood sugar levels were dramatically stabilizing, as he is a type 1 diabetic (for the past 27 years)."