From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 12:52:51 MDT
Scott Badger writes:
> Wait a minute. At the highest dosage of Fluka's product (3 ml = 83 doses =
> ~3 months worth) and at the Fluka price of $9.35 for 250 ml . . . that's a
> little over $3.00/month compared to Somatopro's $40-$65 range. Even better,
> 2.5 L at $44.25 results in a monthly cost of ~ $1.50.
>
> Can this be right?
>
> I also found the following statement at
> http://www.nutritionalsupplements.com/borametz.html and thought it should
> be noted.
[ cautionary tox info snipped ]
>
> So it sounds like Fluka is high grade and cheap as well. Do they restrict
It's cheap, but whether it's really high grade it's hard to tell (it
explicitly says "For laboratory use only. Not for drug, household or
other uses" on the package, to document they didn't do tox studies to
protect them against possible legal action). If the toxicity is
attributable to impurities solely, then 1-3 ml/day at ~99% advertised
purity expose you to ~10-30 mg/day of Something Else. It would depend
on the synthesis route and degree of purification whether the
Something Else is toxicologically noxious or not.
As always, caveat emptor. I'm probably not going to take the Fluka
product for any length of time before it's validated. Maybe I can slip
some of it into a HPLC system and/or borrow some capacity to do some
raw tox studies of the Fluka product on rodents. I'll let you know in
case I learn anything new on the matter.
> who the sell to (e.g. biochemists, researchers, etc.)
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