Article: The bilberry blues.(Editorial)

In my last editorial, AMR 12.3, example 4 outlined a problem with a fraudulent "independent laboratory" used by a company that provides copies of their "analysis" with each product purchased by a practitioner. To further explain my frustration with analytical procedures and laboratories, I must first go back to a study published in AMR 5.2, "The Effect of Bilberry Nutritional Supplementation on Night Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity." For this U.S. Navy-commissioned study, I prepared, under GMP conditions, the active capsules using Indena bilberry extract, and placebo capsules utilizing magnesium aspartate and synthetic food dyes. After independent laboratory analysis, ...

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