1 week ago
30
Prenatal vitamins are often one of the first things people start taking when they find out they’re pregnant. They can help provide important nutrients needed during pregnancy and support a baby’s development. But new testing from Consumer Reports found that what’s inside the bottle doesn’t always match what’s listed on the label.
Consumer Reports tested 17 prenatal vitamins for label accuracy and contaminants. CR’s experts analyzed each product for heavy metals and measured levels of specific nutrients to see whether they matched the amounts consumers were promised.
The good news: Consumer Reports did not find levels of contaminants that raised safety concerns in any of the prenatal vitamins tested.
Label accuracy, however, was a different story. Only two of the 17 products met industry-accepted potency ranges for every nutrient CR tested: Carlyle For Her Prenatal Multi-Vitamin &...
