>David,  I see in the Vitamin Shoppe catalog that other companies
>sell the SP extract.  For example, Source Naturals has a 320 mg
>SP softgel capsule.
 
Yes, indeed, you observe correctly!  I have not walked into a health food 
store in the last two years that I have not seen SP standardized extract for 
sale in one form or another.  In fact I think you'd be hard put to find dried 
ground berries today!
 
The commercial extraction/standardization/encapsulation technologies have 
advanced enormously in the past few years and all large manufacturers are 
finding that the STANDARDIZATION of concentrated extracts in all herbals is 
the way to go.  They are prevented from making health claims on the label, so 
they appeal to the buying public by offering a responsibly prepared product 
with a good shelf life and a "swallowable" high concentration cap (gelcap for 
liquids).  Formerly it was thought that extracts (of any herb) would have 
substandard shelf-lives, but that has turned out to be untrue, at least as 
far as Seronea Repens is concerned. 
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