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Most Hoodia products
being sold on the net today are nothing
more than capsules filled with unidentifiable
plant material and sawdust. Crooks and ripoff
artists are exploiting the hoodia weight
loss craze in America and scamming people
into paying 40 bucks a bottle for fake hoodia.
Pure South African Hoodia
Gordonii is rare, expensive and rapidly
becoming as exclusive of a commodity as
diamonds. There is only one place in the
world where authentic Hoodia Gordonii is
grown for commercial export and that is
the Western Cape of South Africa. There
are only 5 major farmers on the African
continent authorized to grow Hoodia Gordononii
and of those, only one has authorization
to sell the pure powder directly to the
US market.
Real Hoodia costs around
300 US Dollars per kilo and is available
only to companies licensed by the FDA and
USDA to import terrestrial plants. At this
price, pure Hoodia Gordonii is one of the
most expensive herbs on the market and many
hopeful Hoodia manufactures cannot or will
not pay the high prices involved with using
authentic Hoodia Gordonii.
The scarcity and expense
of pure Hoodia Gordonii is causing a worldwide
scam of fake Hoodia products being sold.
Many of these Hoodia imposters claim to
have the real thing but lab testing shows
they are actually offering a common cactus
called Opuntia or Chinesse Extract. And
what is even worse is some fake hoodia products
contained ground plant material of ‘unknown
origins’, starch, maltodextrin, rice
powders, and sawdust! So its no wonder that
one third of all hopeful Hoodia consumers
have had bad results, they are buying bogus
products sold to them by rip off artists
that contain absolutely no genuine Hoodia
Gordonii!
The good news is there
are three Sure-Fire ways to verify the authenticity
of Genuine Hoodia Gordonii products before
you buy them. The primary method for determining
that the vendor is selling you genuine Hoodia
Gordonii is to look for a document called
the C.I.T.E.S certificate. This is a certificate
issued by Cape Nature of South Africa. It
stands for the Convention on International
Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora. Hoodia Gordonii is a protected
plant species and it can only be sold and
exported when a valid C.I.T.E.S certificate
has been issued. Without this certification,
any attempt to import Hoodia into the United
States will be seized by US Customs at the
point of entry. So, you can be certain that
if they have a valid CITES certificate,
you are buying the real deal.
But beware! Some websites
claim to have a valid CITES certificate,
but when you look at it you will notice
the importer and/or exporter have been whited-out.
A real certificate will clearly state the
legal importer and exporter for the shipment.
So take a good close look before you decide
that they are legitimate Hoodia vendors.
The second way to authenticate
genuine hoodia importers is to ask to view
their USDA Import License. All Hoodia Gordonii
importers must have a valid USDA license
and be registered by the Food and Drug Administration.
Any honest Hoodia Gornodii supply company
will happily, in fact proudly display all
of these credentials to verify they are
lawful trustworthy suppliers. If they seem
hesitant, or their paperwork seems shifty
or incomplete, look elsewhere for your Hoodia,
don’t let yourself become their next
victim.
The final and perhaps
most decisive method to verify genuine Hoodia
products is called the Alkemists Lab Report
which I discuss in full detail at my website:
http://superchargedweightloss.com/weight-loss-supplements/pure-hoodia-gordonii.htm
to help you decisively authenticate pure
Hoodia Gordonii products from the imposters.
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