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[griffenspade]

Iv been on a piracitam/choline regiment for a few months, Its pretty amazing. I just ordered another shippment from bulk nutrition. This shipment seems different from the last. The last bottle of piracitam has a bit of an off smell to it, and is smaller crystal granulates, this one has no smell and is larger crystal granulates, they both taste the same.

The last thing of choline had a strong fishy smell, this time its alot less, but similar in appearance.

Im not sure, how pure the stuff from bulk nutrition is. Is there any feasable way to test if its actually piracitam and choline?

[niner]

Im not sure, how pure the stuff from bulk nutrition is. Is there any feasable way to test if its actually piracitam and choline?

Thu usual way is to run a chromatographic separation using a High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph. That will separate the sample into individual components, and if you have a known standard sample, you can then identify the main peak. If you are fortunate enough to have a mass spectrometer hooked up to your HPLC, you can identify most of the contaminants. This probably isn't what you wanted to hear... You can send it to an analytical lab, but it would cost you at least a few hundred dollars for an analysis. There might be a few colorimetric assays for heavy metals that could be run cheaply. Basically, welcome to the supplement industry. It's best to deal with responsible providers that either have their own in-house lab (i.e., big name-brand companies like Jarrow etc) or that, like RevGenetics, have every batch tested by a third-party lab.

[pycnogenol]

Basically, welcome to the supplement industry. It's best to deal with responsible providers that either have their own in-house lab (i.e., big name-brand companies like Jarrow etc)
or that, like RevGenetics, have every batch tested by a third-party lab.

What niner said. I avoid Bulk Nutrition mainly because I'm a super picky bastard. I wouldn't have it any other way.

If you want documented high-quality Piracetam then look no further than Relentless Improvement. They got the real deal.