The Shaklee Difference

In Shaklee’s 68-year history, NONE of their products have ever contained synthetic ingredients, artificial colors or sweetening agents, questionable stabilizers, or preservatives. They also NEVER contained pesticide or fungicide residues. They’ve NEVER contained heavy metals or chemical contaminants of any sort. That didn’t happen by accident... that happened by choice.

In this issue of HealthQuest we will review several serious product recalls, which raise concerns about the quality and safety of commercial supplements, distributed by huge name-brand manufacturers. Then we'll review why Shaklee has always produced high quality, safe, and effective products. It is easy to feel a strong sense of pride for this Company, because Shaklee originated the concept of “doing well by doing better for others”.

Dr. Shaklee was an authentic visionary.
He was one of the earliest nutritional researchers, when he created the first multivitamin supplement, Vitalized Minerals, 109 years ago (1915). Dr. Shaklee also revolutionized a unique method for product distribution, based on building personal relationships, rather than relying on Madison Avenue hype.

The company he designed is both genuine and unique.
Shaklee products are conceived and produced by the finest scientists and technicians that our country has to offer. Their Scientific Advisory Board is composed from America’s most published and respected researchers.

Dr. Shaklee set his company on the firm path to create healthier lives, with revolutionary products, that are in harmony with nature, and based upon rock-solid science. Shaklee is committed to improving the lives of everyone it touches, while always being guided by the Golden Rule.

Not All Supplements Are Created Equal

The recent California lawsuit against 10 of the largest Fish Oil Manufacturers was a disturbing reminder that the supplement industry remains self-regulated.

It's the Wild West out there folks.   Anything goes, and usually does.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not micro-manage food-based supplement manufacturers, unless there are numerous complaints and/or deaths traced back to a specific product. An example of that is when the FDA banned ephedra back in 2004.

The FDA also has to ignore what it considers “acceptable levels” of toxins or heavy metal contamination within the U.S. food chain, mainly because of how polluted our land and water supplies haved become since WWII. [1],

Fortunately for Californian consumers, their State passed Proposition 65 in 1986, to force manufacturers to label exactly what is contained in every product. [2]   Although the FDA ignores what are termed “acceptable levels” of toxins in consumable products, California law still demands that they MUST be listed as an ingredient. That is the basis of the Justice Foundation's Fish Oil lawsuit. [3]

We need to be very concerned.   PCBs (or polychlorinated biphenyls) are man-made industrial chemicals, with a record as one of the most vicious environmental pollutants.

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