Re: [Everything doTERRA] On Guard Plus

Someone on the Brilliant Solutions Facebook group posted some responses they got from doTERRA.  I'm just excerpting them for the parts pertinent to the discussion fo carrageenan.

Carrageenan is a natural fiber extracted from seaweed. It is used as a thickening agent in our vegetarian softgels. (Carrageenan-containing softgel capsules are the only stable vegetarian alternatives to animal-sourced softgel capsules.) Seaweed and seaweed fiber are used safely and extensively throughout the world and have well-established safety records supported by numerous clinical studies. Carrageenan is GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) and approved for topical use and in food preparations. Much of the current criticism of carrageenan is based on older studies of a degraded form of carrageenan called poligeenan. dōTERRA products use only native carrageenan, not poligeenan. There is no credible evidence that carrageenan, used as a stabilizing agent in softgels, has the potential to degrade in the digestive process to materially substantial form of poligeenan. Furthermore, the very small amounts of seaweed fiber used to stabilize our vegetable softgel material are thousands of times smaller than the toxic levels of exposure some attribute to poligeenan. Simply stated, we are firmly confident the natural seaweed fiber used in our vegetable softgel material is safe. When the option is available, we will continue to use our vegetable softgels as a preferred alternative to the more common animal gelatin. (Our two-piece vegetable HPMC hard capsules do not include seaweed fiber.)

Here's the more important one.  I do believe doTERRA has all of our best interests in mind, and it would appear, according to this excerpt attributed to Rob Young, that enough concern has been raised that an alternative to the softgel method of delivery has been researched.  While it mentions vEO Mega specifically, I would be very surprised if it did not refer to other of doTERRA's softgel products.

If you have customers that remain unconvinced of the safety of carrageenan and polysorbate, please note that we will be transitioning away from the softgel delivery currently used in the vEO Mega product to a non-carageenan two-piece hard shell vegetable capsule and we will not employ our polysorbate lipid delivery system in the next manufacturing run of vEO Mega. This new formula will be available later this year.

Thanks,
Neal

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