Re: Great post! Red yeast rice...

I went to buy some red yeast rice a few months ago for my wife at Kroger and the pharmacist said, "don’t bother", as the red yeast rice they were selling did not have monacolin in it. t2t


But because many red yeast rice supplements did contain monacolin, the Food and Drug Administration considered them to be drugs, not supplements, and required that manufacturers remove any red yeast rice products that contained monacolin from the market. As a result, many of the red yeast rice products now on the U.S. market may not contain monacolin. Consumers cannot distinguish between red yeast products that contain monacolin from those that don't because manufacturers make no label claims for monacolin content.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/red-yearice-000323.htm

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