From: Melody Cloud <persona@sandwiched.com>
Subject: RE: Vitamins: Check quality yourself -misconception!
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:36:46 -0600
From: IntraCell@aol.com
Subject: Re: Vitamins: Check quality yourself!
dmrive@MEM.po.com wrote:
>A good test of vitamins is have the USP approval
>on the label. They say that the product will disolve in your system
>within 45 minutes. A good test for this is to take the vitamin pills
>and place them in a small amount of vinegar and see if they disolve in
>the required 45 minutes. if so, then you have an acceptable product.
Although quality control is a real and serious issue in the supplement business, the self-test you describe is not the USP method and will not yield reliable results of disintegration or dissolution. This is a popular misconception.
Regards,
Elliott Goodman
Oh, for heavens' sake. The formulary, United States Pharmacopeia, is not a home-brew, do-it-yourself guide to ANYTHING. Check back issues of Consumer Reports; a couple of years ago they evaluated several branded supplments, and some products from Shaklee Corporation (one of the oldest and most highly respected MLMs-even though their products have been said to be 'overpriced.'-and I am NOT a distributor...).
Bottom line is, 'above all, do no harm.' Nutritional INSURANCE is oversold to consumers in the same way regular insurance is oversold-and for the same reasons. Consumers generally are not knowledgeable about their own physiology, and view the prospect of learning all those big words-for which they can supply insufficient referent in 'real life'-daunting at best and overwhelming at worst. Therefore, these consumers are 'easy prey' for malfeasant or negligent (OK, lazy, ignorant, manipulative, greedy and aggressive! Satisfied?!? <grins>) salespeople and health-care practitioners of all sorts.
What I commend to my customers is not cheap grace but personal commitment. In this world, the watchword is still, 'caveat emptor,' and I have a disclaimer-and a requirement-on all of my personal sales literature to that effect. I network with other responsible MLMers and small businesses, with the goal of providing my particular 'customer niche' with the most reliable, best researched products on the MLM-and-independent-business market. I owe no allegiance to any one company, with the consequence that most of my income will probably come from cost-plus-20% retail sales and not from overrides on a 'downline.' Although I believe in the concepts underpinning the MLM distribution system, I simply do not have the time, the patience, or the resources to supply educational material to a whole group of newbie product distributors who-even though I am 'up front,' and tell everyone that YES, VIRGINIA, YOU DO HAVE TO SELL IN MLM-do not have any interest in PRODUCT training!
I am sure I have rambled on long enough!
Thanks for being there.
Sincerely,
Melody Cloud
"Take The Shoes Off Your Mind!"(c)
http://www.sandwiched.com (when it's finished!)
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Subject: Vitamins: Check quality yourself -misconception!
From: IntraCell@aol.com
Subject: Re: Vitamins: Check quality yourself!
dmrive@MEM.po.com wrote:
>A good test of vitamins is have the USP approval
>on the label. They say that the product will disolve in your system
>within 45 minutes. A good test for this is to take the vitamin pills
>and place them in a small amount of vinegar and see if they disolve in
>the required 45 minutes. if so, then you have an acceptable product.
Although quality control is a real and serious issue in the supplement business, the self-test you describe is not the USP method and will not yield reliable results of disintegration or dissolution. This is a popular misconception.
Regards,
Elliott Goodman
Oh, for heavens' sake. The formulary, United States Pharmacopeia, is not a home-brew, do-it-yourself guide to ANYTHING. Check back issues of Consumer Reports; a couple of years ago they evaluated several branded supplments, and some products from Shaklee Corporation (one of the oldest and most highly respected MLMs-even though their products have been said to be 'overpriced.)
Bottom line is, 'above all, do no harm.' Nutritional INSURANCE is oversold to consumers in the same way regular insurance is oversold-and for the same reasons. Consumers generally are not knowledgeable about their own physiology, and view the prospect of learning all those big words-for which they can supply insufficient referent in 'real life'-daunting at best and overwhelming at worst. Therefore, these consumers are 'easy prey' for malfeasant or negligent (OK, lazy, ignorant, manipulative, greedy and aggressive! Satisfied?!? <grins>) salespeople and health-care practitioners of all sorts.
What I commend to my customers is not cheap grace but personal commitment. In this world, the watchword is still, 'caveat emptor,' and I have a disclaimer-and a requirement-on all of my personal sales literature to that effect. I network with other responsible MLMers and small businesses, with the goal of providing my particular 'customer niche' with the most reliable, best researched products on the MLM-and-independent-business market. I owe no allegiance to any one company, with the consequence that most of my income will probably come from cost-plus-20% retail sales and not from overrides on a 'downline.' Although I believe in the concepts underpinning the MLM distribution system, I simply do not have the time, the patience, or the resources to supply educational material to a whole group of newbie product distributors who-even though I am 'up front,' and tell everyone that YES, VIRGINIA, YOU DO HAVE TO SELL IN MLM-do not have any interest in PRODUCT training!
I am sure I have rambled on long enough!
Thanks for being there.
Sincerely,
Melody Cloud
"Take The Shoes Off Your Mind!"(c)
http://www.sandwiched.com (when it's finished!)