Posted by Larry Hoover on October 20, 2004, at 8:13:52
In reply to L-Tryptophan, posted by MKB on October 20, 2004, at 2:58:30
> Does anyone know where I can purchase L-Tryptophan? It's my understanding that it cannot be sold in the U.S. and has not been sold here for many years. I tried it over 20 years ago and it helped me a lot. I've been quite unhappy that it was outlawed here just because of one bad batch. The tryptophan I took was a lot more helpful than all the different antidepressants I've tried.
It has not been illegal to purchase tryptophan for human consumption since 1994. That comes as a surprise to many people. There was an extremely high publicity level when it was banned (because of one contaminated batch from Japan), but it was very very quietly re-approved.
When the ban was lifted, it became the vendor/manufacturer's responsibility to prove that it was safe, rather than the FDA's. Believe me, the novel process that led to the contamination in the first place is no longer used, anywhere. There is no chance that contamination can happen again.
I use veterinary tryptophan. Same stuff, but about 1/10 the price. Nobody is going to give a million dollar horse a poisonous supplement, believe me.
More in these two posts/threads.
Lar
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/alter/20030903/msgs/263575.html
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/alter/20031003/msgs/271979.html
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