Consumer Alert: Hoodia Gordonii weight loss pills scam exposed by independent investigation

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Truth Publishing can now reveal the details of an exhaustive investigation into

what may be the largest Hoodia Gordonii supplement scam operating in North

America: the Pure Hoodia, Inc. company. (This article has recently been updated

with even more evidence, see below for details.) In this exclusive Truth

Publishing report, you'll learn how:

 

 

Pure Hoodia, Inc. is selling counterfeit hoodia as verified by independent lab

testing (actual documents revealed below).

Pure Hoodia, Inc. is failing to fill their capsules with the promised quantity

of powder. Our tests on a digital scale showed that capsules from the

PureHoodia.com company contained only 290mg of powder, not 400mg. (Actual

digital scale results and photos shown below.)

Pure Hoodia, Inc. has sought to steal intellectual property from a competing

hoodia company by attempting to preemptively register / steal its trademark and

product name. (Documents shown below.)

Pure Hoodia, Inc. has stolen Truth Publishing content, modified the text, and

posted a distorted version on their own website in an attempt to mislead readers

into believing that Newstarget.com solely and exclusively recommends their

product, which is absolutely not the case.

Pure Hoodia, Inc. operates out of a Nevada corporation set up and run by

individuals who operate hundreds of small Nevada corporations, most likely for

lawsuit protection reasons.

Pure Hoodia, Inc. operates several companies and brands of Hoodia, including the

Hoodonii and Slimtron product lines, which are advertised and promoted as

separate companies, but are actually owned and controlled by the same people.

Pure Hoodia, Inc. operates a series of fake " consumer comparison " websites that

deceive consumers into purchasing their " top-rated " products, which are always

products owned or controlled by the Pure Hoodia, Inc. operators.

Revealing the scam...

This story begins in mid-2004, when hoodia was appearing on the scene as an

appetite suppressant. At that time, Truth Publishing purchased several hoodia

products, conducted interviews, and began listing hoodia suppliers known to

offer honest products. At the time, we were convinced this included Pure Hoodia,

Inc. To further verify this, Truth Publishing attempted to locate laboratories

in the U.S. that could conduct specimen authentication testing, but no such labs

could be found (we called dozens).

 

 

As the popularity of hoodia skyrocketed since mid-2004, the bulk materials

hoodia suppliers in South Africa were getting squeezed. Demand was skyrocketing,

but the supply of hoodia couldn't be ramped up overnight. In fact, the hoodia

gordonii plant requires 5 - 7 years to reach maturity, so there was a sudden

shortage of raw material.

 

 

Selling sawdust and calling it hoodia

As Truth Publishing has now learned from a variety of interviews with the chief

scientific officers at two different laboratories, the South African suppliers

responded to this heightened demand by doing three things:

Blending plant roots into the bulk materials as filler. Roots, unfortunately,

have none of the active chemical constituents that give hoodia gordonii its

appetite suppressant qualities.

Wild harvesting species that appear similar to hoodia, but are not hoodia. While

this may allow the bulk ingredients to pass a simple microscopy test (because it

all looks like succulent material under the microscope), it will not pass HPLC

and TLC testing (chromatographic tests) that reveal the active chemical

constituents of the sample.

Cutting their bulk materials with silica, leaves, sawdust and other filler

products that provide bulk, but no active ingredients.

 

Many commercial buyers in the U.S. were duped by South African hoodia suppliers

who used these tactics.

 

Bait and switch

Another favorite tactic of the suppliers was a " bait and switch " strategy: when

a U.S. buyer wanted to test a sample, the South African companies provided a

genuine sample of hoodia gordonii. But once a large-volume order was placed, the

bulk ingredients turned out to be counterfeit. Truth Publishing can confirm that

at least one U.S. hoodia supplement company is now engaged in legal action

against a South African hoodia supplier who used this bait-and-switch tactic.

Meanwhile, back in the U.S., hoodia supplement companies were raking in

astronomical sales as demand for hoodia weight loss pills skyrocketed. With all

the money flowing, some companies decided that using authentic hoodia was

irrelevant. As long as people were buying the product, they apparently thought,

it didn't really matter what was in the capsules.

 

Truth Publishing can reveal that Pure Hoodia, Inc. is a company now selling

counterfeit hoodia. While we believe that Pure Hoodia originally sold genuine

hoodia in 2004, we have now completed (and paid for) independent lab testing

that shows the Pure Hoodia product to be counterfeit.

 

 

The Microscopy test

The microscopy test shows the sample has no physical resemblance to hoodia

gordonii. (Click image to see full-size.)

The first test conducted by Alkemist Pharmaceuticals (the lab) on the Pure

Hoodia sample was a microscopy test. This is essentially a visual inspection of

the microscopic structure of the material. Families of plants show unique

structures under the microscope. For example, flowering perennials look very

different from succulents. Similarly, leaves, stems, roots and rhizomes all have

unique structural characteristics that are readily identifiable by a trained

botanist.

The microscopy test conducted on the Pure Hoodia sample had no resemblance to

hoodia gordonii. As the lab report states, " The characteristic cellular

structures above cannot confirm the identity of Hoodia gordonii. "

 

I spoke with the lab about this, and was told that the sample was definitely not

hoodia, although it was, as they explained, " A common adulteration of hoodia

seen in many samples submitted by various companies. " In other words, it's not

only counterfeit, it's also a " common " counterfeit recipe.

 

Even though the microscopy test is, by itself, conclusive, we wanted to conduct

more testing to make certain that our investigation was covering all the bases.

What test did we look at next? TLC.

 

 

Thin-Layer Chromatography

The TLC (chromatographic) test reveals no chemical constituents resembling

hoodia gordonii. (Click image to see full-size.)

This test reveals the chromatographic profile of the sample substance. In

layman's terms, each chemical in a sample resonates with certain frequencies of

electromagnetic energy. As this energy is directed towards the sample in a

progression algorithm that sweeps from short wavelengths to longer wavelengths,

chemicals in the sample will resonate, giving off peaks of energy that are

detectable by the TLC sensors. It is this combination of peaks and valleys in

the chromatographic chart that reveals a pattern (a " fingerprint " ) for each

species of plant.

In the TLC testing, the Pure Hoodia sample turned out to have no resemblance to

hoodia gordonii powder. As the report states, " The chromatographic profile

demonstrated above cannot confirm the identity of Hoodia gordonii. "

(Translation: the sample isn't hoodia.)

 

 

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

The HPLC test also reveals no chemical constituents resembling hoodia gordonii.

(Click image to see full-size.)

Truth Publishing also paid for one final test: HPLC. Without getting too

technical, this test is similar to the TLC test, but helps confirm the test

findings from another angle. The results of this test confirm, for a third time,

that the sample is not hoodia gordonii: " The chromatographic profile

demonstrated above cannot confirm the identity of Hoodia Gordonii. "

These were three separate tests all confirming that the sample was not hoodia

gordonii. The only two possible conclusions to draw from this are that either

the lab has no idea how to conduct tests (highly unlikely) or that the sample

isn't genuine hoodia. Truth Publishing believes that the test results are

accurate and that the Pure Hoodia product is counterfeit.

 

But this is only the beginning of the investigation. Once you take a closer look

at the business practices of Pure Hoodia, Inc., plus the deceptive labeling and

online marketing techniques used by the company, you will not be surprised at

all by the counterfeit findings revealed above. What you are about to read may

shock you. And if you were a customer of Pure Hoodia, it may in fact enrage you.

 

 

Unscrupulous business practices exposed

Pure Hoodia, Inc. tried to register the trademark of a competitor's product

name. (Click image to see full-size.)

After receiving the test results described above, Truth Publishing began to look

further into the business practices of Pure Hoodia, Inc. One of the first

interesting things we found was a trademark application filed by Pure Hoodia,

Inc. in 2004 for the phrase, " Hoodoba. " Sounds like a hoodia product name,

right? It is... except that it's the product name of a competitor (the

StrictlyHealth company at http://www.hoodia-dietpills.com) who had been using

the Hoodoba name for a considerable period of time, long before Pure Hoodia,

Inc. filed for it.

The likely strategy here? It seems likely that the Pure Hoodia company was

trying to register trademarks for the names of competitors' products. The only

purpose for a tactic such as this would be to gain ownership of competitors'

intellectual property, then sue them in order to take over their domain names or

product branding reputation. It's a dirty tactic, and would only be pursued by

someone with a very low standard of ethics.

 

Click on the image shown here, and you'll see the U.S. Patent and Trademark

Office filing by Pure Hoodia, Inc. for the " Hoodoba " trademark on July 15, 2004.

You'll also that the trademark application reveals a link to a Nevada

corporation.

 

Seeing this, we decided to follow the Nevada lead and check with Nevada's

Secretary of State...

 

 

A corporate front for illicit operations

Nevada Secretary of State documents reveal a corporation mill and the name of an

operator. (Click image to see full-size.)

At Nevada's Secretary of State website (http://sos.state.nv.us/), I ran a search

for the Pure Hoodia, Inc. company. This turned up the record shown at right,

which reveals that the company is operated by a corporation front organization

named Budget Corporate Renewals, Inc.

From this document, we also learned that the officer of the corporation was

Darrell M. Carriger, a person who has a more substantial role in this

investigation, as you will see below. It's important to note that Carriger is

not the owner of Pure Hoodia, Carriger is basically a front-man for corporations

set up in Nevada. For those who don't know, there are basically two reasons to

set up a Nevada corporation like this: 1) for legitimate asset protection

reasons, in case you happen to be a lawsuit target from unscrupulous ambulance

chasers and the like, and 2) for con artists, scammers and criminals who want to

be able to conduct business while making it nearly impossible for them to be

sued. You can guess which category Pure Hoodia probably belongs to.

 

The Nevada Secretary of State reveals a web of corporations for which Carriger

serves as officers. (Click image to see full-size.)

Running a search on Carriger, we discovered 510 records with the State of

Nevada, representing potentially hundreds of corporations (see right). This

indicates Carriger is most likely an individual who will register and operate

Nevada corporations for anyone willing to pay filing fees and annual

maintenance. Although Nevada corporations certainly have legitimate uses, this

pattern is simultaneously indicative of a corporate shell game played by con

artists.

 

There's more to the corporate shell game, as you'll see below. But now let's

shift gears and take a look at the marketing tactics of Pure Hoodia, Inc.

 

 

Deceiving consumers with rigged comparison charts

This rigged comparison chart deceives consumers by only recommending companies

operated by the same guy. (Click image to see full-size.)

One way many companies use search engines and websites to deceive customers is

to construct bogus comparison charts that imply a fair comparison among hoodia

products, but that actually place self-serving product recommendations at the

top of the list. You can see one such chart in the image shown here.

This originally appeared at http://www.thehoodiafactor.com/, but may have been

changed by the time you read this.

 

This chart purports to show a collection of various independent hoodia products

along with rankings from five stars down to one star. The top three products on

this chart are Hoodonii, Pure Hoodia and SlimTron.

 

Sounds like three different products, right? Think again:

 

 

Pure Hoodia, Inc. is registered as a Nevada corporation, formed by Budget

Corporate Renewals, Inc., with officers as follows: President: Darrell M.

Carriger. Secretary: Darrell M. Carriger. Treasurer: Darrell M. Carriger.

Hoodonii is sold by a company called Globebix, which is registered as a Nevada

corporation, formed by Budget Corporate Renewals, Inc., with officers as

follows: President: Darrell M. Carriger. Secretary: Darrell M. Carriger.

Treasurer: Darrell M. Carriger.

SlimTron is sold by a company called Lugan Technologies, Inc., which is

registered as a Nevada corporation, formed by Budget Corporate Renewals, Inc.,

with officers as follows: President: Darrell M. Carriger. Secretary: Darrell M.

Carriger. Treasurer: Darrell M. Carriger.

 

This Nevada document also shows the Globebix company being operated by the same

outfit. (Click image to see full-size.)

Starting to get the picture here? What this con artist does is sets up shell

corporations in Nevada, pumps counterfeit hoodia powder into capsules, then

slaps three (or more) different labels on the products, making it look like it

all comes from three different companies. Then he sets up a rigged consumer

comparison website and, coincidentally, happens to list his three hoodia

companies all as five-star, top-rated recommendations.

Whatever company the consumer chooses, this guy wins. And he wins big, because

buying counterfeit hoodia is a lot cheaper than buying the real thing. The

consumer, meanwhile, gets screwed by paying retail prices for fake products.

 

 

Stealing even more intellectual property

This screen shot shows theft of a Newstarget.com article along with editing

designed to mislead readers. (Click image to see full-size.)

When Truth Publishing started to uncover this information in our investigations,

we of course removed our original link to the Pure Hoodia company which had

appeared in earlier hoodia articles. The Pure Hoodia company didn't like that,

so they decided to steal entire pages of content from Newstarget.com, edit those

pages to make it seem like we were exclusively recommending their product, and

then post those edited pages on their own website(s) such as

www.TheHoodiaFactor.com.

This was not only a blatant theft of Truth Publishing's intellectual property,

it is also causing untold damage to the Truth Publishing reputation due to Pure

Hoodia's editing of the content page, making it misrepresent Truth Publishing's

position on their products.

 

Sending a warning email to Pure Hoodia accomplished nothing. It was completely

ignored, and the intellectual property theft continues to this day.

 

But this part of the investigation is by no means over, because by stealing

content from Newstarget.com, the Pure Hoodia con artist has, in effect,

motivated us to further pursue investigations and, potentially, support criminal

charges against the Pure Hoodia owner / operator (who we will not name here, but

whose identity is well known to us). You'll read more about this below. We are

now fully aware of this con artist's multiple products, corporate fronts, and

even his criminal history, all of which we are currently holding off on making

public until we can put together a more complete investigation.

 

 

New information: Pure Hoodia rips off content from yet another hoodia website

After this article was first published in March, 2005, we received hundreds of

emails thanking us for pursuing this investigation and reporting our findings.

We also found out that Pure Hoodia has been busy stealing content from other

websites as well. Virtually all content from the Australian website

Hoodiaman.com was ripped off by Pure Hoodia and posted at the Pure Hoodia

website.

Naturally, the original author of the content (Hoodiaman.com) was appalled and

has been trying to get Pure Hoodia to take their content down, but it has been

no use. The Pure Hoodia con artists believe they can freely steal content and

scam the public without repercussions. And so far, that's exactly what they've

been able to get away with.

 

 

Pure Hoodia, Inc. violates federal labeling laws

Thinking that a con artist who would sell counterfeit hoodia, steal feature

articles, play nasty trademark games with competitors, deceive consumers with

bogus product comparison charts and use Nevada shell corporations might also be

up to other questionable activity, we decided to find out if the Pure Hoodia

product was possibly violating federal labeling laws. As it turns out, we were

right: the Pure Hoodia product is deceptively labeled and is right now being

sold in violation of federal laws and FDA regulations.

To find this out, we purchased a high-end digital scale called the i2600. It is

accurate to .1 grams (1/10th of a gram) and is calibrated with a 1kg weight

(1000 grams).

 

Ten empty capsules weighs .9 grams. (Click image to see full-size.)

To do the math on Pure Hoodia's capsules, we first needed the weight of empty

capsules. We purchased and weighed 10 gelatin capsules on the scale, which gave

us a reading of .9 grams (900mg).

 

Then we read the Pure Hoodia product label, which claims 400mg of hoodia powder

per capsule. Using that figure, the total weight of 10 capsules should be, of

course, 4g, plus the weight of the empty capsules (.9). This means that if the

capsules were properly filled with 400mg of hoodia powder each, the resulting

total weight of capsules plus powder should be 4900mg, or 4.9 grams.

 

The Pure Hoodia capsules weighed only 3.8 grams, indicating a 25% shortage of

hoodia powder. (Click image to see full-size.)

However, as you can see from this photo, the actual weight of ten Pure Hoodia

capsules was only 3.8 grams. Subtracting the .9 grams for empty capsules, this

leaves only 2.9 grams of actual hoodia powder. This is less than 75% of the

promised amount of hoodia according to the product label and website (which

should be 400mg per capsule).

 

The bottom line? Pure Hoodia capsules only contain 290mg of powder each, not

400mg. Of course, even if they were to contain 400mg of powder, the powder is

counterfeit hoodia to begin with. But what this indicates is a double scam: the

powder is counterfeit, and customers are being short-changed on the dosage.

 

 

Pure Hoodia uses the wrong capsules

A closer look at the capsules used by Pure Hoodia reveals the problem: the

company is using capsules that are too small to hold 400mg of powder. The

capsules themselves are simply too tiny. Pure Hoodia capsules are too small to

hold 400mg of powder while a competing product, Hoodoba, uses larger capsules

and genuine hoodia powder. (Click image to see full-size.)

Take a look at this comparison photo on the right. You'll see that both of these

products, Pure Hoodia and Hoodoba (a product from another company that actually

sells genuine hoodia powder) claim 400mg per capsule, but the actual size of the

capsules is quite different. The Pure Hoodia capsules are tiny compared to the

Hoodoba capsules.

This is why a careful weighing of these products reveals the Pure Hoodia

capsules to only contain 290mg of powder, far short of the 400mg claimed on the

label. This puts Pure Hoodia in violation of product labeling laws.

 

Hoodoba, a genuine hoodia product, provides 6.1 grams in ten capsules. (Click

image to see full-size.)

In contrast, take a look at the actual weight of the Hoodoba capsules from an

honest company selling genuine hoodia (see photo on right).

 

Here, we see the Hoodoba company's capsules weighing 6.1 grams. Subtracting the

weight of the empty capsules (.9), that leaves us with 5.2 grams (5200mg) of

powder in 10 capsules, or 520mg in each capsule. This means the Hoodoba company

is actually over-delivering, giving customers MORE hoodia than required.

 

Hoodia Products " Powerslim " product provides an honest weight of 5000mg for ten

capsules. (Click image to see full-size.)

Another company offering genuine, lab-certified hoodia powder is Powerslim from

the Hoodia Products company (www.HoodiaProducts.com). Subtracting the .9 grams

of capsules leaves 4100mg of powder in ten capsules, or 410mg each (slightly

above the promised amount per capsule).

 

As you can see then, other (honest) hoodia companies are delivering 400mg or

higher per capsule.

 

 

The bottom line

As you can clearly see from this report, the assertions made about Pure Hoodia,

Inc. at the beginning of this report are well documented and fully backed by

hard evidence. Truth Publishing believes that the Pure Hoodia company is

operating a hoodia scam, deceiving customers on multiple levels, and flouting

the law in order to make a fast buck by riding the wave of popularity for a

weight loss product.

They are, in effect, preying upon the desperation of people who are trying to

lose weight with hoodia gordonii as an appetite suppressant, and in doing so,

they are discrediting the entire hoodia industry.

 

Furthermore, until Truth Publishing initiated this investigation, no consumer

safety organization, nor the FTC, nor the FDA were working on putting a stop to

this. Pure Hoodia likely could have continued selling bogus products to

unsuspecting consumers for many months or years.

 

It's almost as bad as the pharmaceutical industry, except for the fact that

bogus hoodia powder probably doesn't kill people like prescription drugs do

(prescription drugs kill at least 100,000 Americans each year, and that study

was conducted before the truth came out about COX-2 inhibitor drugs that may

have killed tens of thousands more). But many of the marketing tactics are the

same: distort the truth, deceive customers, and disseminate propaganda

masquerading as " public educational materials " such as the hoodia comparison

chart shown earlier. Certainly, the lack of ethics shown here by Pure Hoodia,

Inc. mirrors the dishonesty at large pharmaceutical companies who push hard to

sell dangerous products to customers in order to maximize shareholder value and

annual profits. If you think this hoodia scam is bad, you should learn more

about the drug racket in this country and how the FDA rubber stamps dangerous

(even deadly) drugs in order to prop up the profits of Big Pharma.

 

 

Action item: What you can do

If you have purchase products from Pure Hoodia, Truth Publishing strongly urges

you to take the following steps:

DO NOT consume capsules labeled as Pure Hoodia, Hoodonii, or SlimTron. Truth

Publishing does not know what powder is actually contained in these capsules,

but the lab results are telling us it is definitely not hoodia gordonii powder.

Do not throw out bottles of Pure Hoodia. Keep them. Law enforcement officials

may want to contact you in the future in order to obtain samples of the

counterfeit capsules.

Call your credit card company and dispute the charges, citing this new report

showing the Pure Hoodia products to be made with counterfeit hoodia powder.

Spread the word: forward the URL for this report to your friends, family, or

anyone who may have purchased hoodia products on the internet. Help protect them

from this hoodia scam by inviting them to read this Truth Publishing

investigative report.

Contact your local state Attorney General and file a complaint. You may include

a copy of this report, if you wish (full permission granted to copy this). If

you are in California, strongly consider this option, as the operator of Pure

Hoodia resides in California.

If you purchased Pure Hoodia products by clicking on a search engine advertising

link, complain to that search engine about the fact that they are unknowingly

promoting a company with a fraudulent product. Help these search engines purge

their pages of fraudulent products and promoters.

Consider contacting the FTC or other law enforcement officials on this matter.

Only through law enforcement efforts can we get con artists shut down.

If you were harmed by the Pure Hoodia company, financially or otherwise, please

email Truth Publishing at the email addresses listed on this site, so that we

may compile a list of complaints for law enforcement authorities. We may also

publish those complaints in an update to this investigation (we will not publish

your name or email address, rest assured).

Help us track down other unscrupulous activities by the Pure Hoodia scam

artists. Have you been scammed by another product that you think may be operated

by the same con artist? Let us know via email, and we'll do our best to continue

this investigation and bring this man to justice.

And finally, to the NewsTarget Insider email alert (see form at top

left of this site) so that you can stay informed about new events in this

ongoing investigation. What we've covered here is only the tip of the iceberg.

There's a lot more to this story, because the operator of Pure Hoodia, it turns

out, is involved in a whole series of other products and companies.

 

Newstarget receives threatening email from Pure Hoodia

Following the first publication of this report, we received a threatening email

signed by Pure Hoodia, Inc. The subject was, " You have been dooped! [sic] " The

email went on to say, " I sure hope that you have deep pockets because our

lawyers are going to take you and your stupid little website down! ...you will

be bought to justice for slander reguardless [sic] of your intent! "

This is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it indicates that the Pure

Hoodia people can't spell. Secondly, it's a good demonstration of the operating

tactics of this con artist: steal from everybody you can, rip off the public

with counterfeit products, then threaten those who shed light on your scam. They

obviously hold some faint hope that by sending threatening emails that look like

they were typed by a high school dropout, they can frighten Truth Publishing

into retracting this story.

 

It would be rather hilarious to see Pure Hoodia attempt to take all of this to

court, because then there would be a public record of all the evidence presented

here, plus more that we haven't yet published. And that's the last thing they

want. They don't want any of this to come to light. They want to keep it buried

and uninvestigated. As long as nobody knows the truth, they can keep running the

scam.

 

Take notice of a couple of things about Pure Hoodia: 1) They never reveal actual

names of people running the company. Even the email we received wasn't signed by

a person's name. 2) It's run out of a PO Box and they never print a physical

street address. 3) Emails from Pure Hoodia come from " freebie " email accounts.

Basically, these people (person, actually) don't want to be tracked down.

Everything's a front, starting with the Nevada corporations (all three, plus

more, actually).

 

 

All of a sudden, Pure Hoodia welcomes your refund request!

Also following the publication of this investigation, Pure Hoodia has posted a

message on their website reading, " It has come to our attention that our

competition along with a so called Independent Consumer Guide and a Consumer

News Alert website is trying to discredit the contents of our Pure Hoodia

capsules so let it be know that if for any reason you are unsatisfied with our

Pure Hoodia or Pure Hoodia Plus product feel free to return the unused portion

along with your original invoice within 60 days from the time your paypal

payment was received for a full refund! "

Why are they making this offer? Because, of course, they don't want the merchant

account chargebacks. You see, they know that the only way they can keep scamming

people is to keep their ecommerce merchant account up and running. If enough

people request chargebacks, then their ecommerce chargeback rate goes through

the roof and, eventually, gets yanked. And if they don't have ecommerce running,

then they can't keep scamming people online. So now all of a sudden, they're

welcoming product returns.

 

What's really interesting about this statement on their website, however, is

that they're calling us a " so-called " independent consumer guide, and yet they

are the ones operating their own rigged comparison websites as exposed in

sections above. Interesting, huh? The fact is, we really are independent. And

Pure Hoodia or anybody else can look all they want, there is absolutely no

payola, no funny business, no kickbacks, etc., between Truth Publishing, myself,

or any company or product we recommend. We're 100% clean, 100% independent.

Which is, of course, why we tell it like it is. And that infuriates those who

are used to calling the shots just because they're writing the checks.

 

 

What Hoodia products can you trust?

As this investigation reveals, not all products in the hoodia industry can be

trusted. Truth Publishing is currently in the process of testing other hoodia

products, and we hope to be able to bring that information to the public as

quickly as possible (although, keep in mind, it is rather expensive for us to

continue to do product testing, given that we receive no financial benefit

whatsoever from sales of hoodia products, and we do not accept payments from

hoodia companies).

In the mean time, here are the three hoodia supplement companies we have

verified are using genuine hoodia gordonii:

 

 

Strictly Health / Hoodoba. This is the company that actually over-delivers on

the hoodia powder. Their capsules contain an abundance of genuine, verified

hoodia gordonii powder.

Jenny Lee Naturals sells a hoodia tincture. Although tincture cannot be tested

in the same way as powder, we have now verified that Jenny Lee Naturals is

sourcing their hoodia powder from both the Hoodoba company (above), and the

Hoodia Products company (below), both of whom have verified authentic hoodia

powder.

HoodiaProducts.com / Powerslim. This is also a 100% verified authentic hoodia

product, sold with high ethical standards, with honest and accurate filling of

capsules.

There certainly may be other companies who are also selling honest hoodia

products. As of this writing, however, Truth Publishing has only been able to

verify the three companies listed above. None of these companies pay to be

listed here, nor has Truth Publishing received any funds whatsoever from these

companies or the sale of their products. Our research results are NOT for sale

(unlike some other so-called " consumer " supplement testing companies on the

Internet).

 

 

Absolutely no payola

Just to reiterate, this investigation was conducted at considerable cost and

effort to Truth Publishing. We spent well over $1,200 on lab tests, equipment

and hoodia samples. We also spent countless hours conducting this investigation,

interviewing various people, writing this report, and so on. Yet we have not

been compensated in any way. No person or company has paid us to create this

report. We receive no financial benefit whatsoever from the sale of any products

mentioned here.

 

Permission to reprint is granted

You may freely reprint this report, along with the images and documents, as long

as full credit and a link is given to http://www.Newstarget.com. Please spread

the word about this hoodia scam to prevent others from being scammed.

 

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