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THE GINSENG CHALLENGE

Ginseng is gaining notoriety in America. Scientific studies continue to affirm what the ancients already knew: Ginseng Root is good for your body and your mind. As Ginseng’s appeal grows, so also do opportunities to misrepresent and mislabel ginseng product content. After all, real Ginseng isn’t cheap, and federal legislation has only begun to protect the ginseng consumer.

Our company strongly supports ginseng product labeling that discloses not only Ginseng content but also country of origin. In October 2005, RushNet, Inc. publicly endorsed U.S. Senate Bill 854 (pending) as introduced by Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, a great friend of the Ginseng farmer. Feingold’s bill would “require that any person offering Ginseng (Panax sp.) for sale in any form shall disclose to the purchaser the Ginseng's country of harvest.” This law is aimed at imported Asian and Canadian ginseng that can contain deleterious levels of pesticide, herbicide and fungicide residue. Wisconsin is the only place in the world where strict government regulation ensures certified residue-free ginseng. This is why our products use pure Wisconsin-Grown Ginseng exclusively.

Some progress on “truth in ginseng” has been made. When the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 passed into law, it included a Feingold measure that mandates the term “Ginseng” be applied in commerce only to the several species of genus Panax, such as Panax Ginseng (Chinese Ginseng) or Panax quinquefolius (American Ginseng). Prior to Feingold’s measure, manufacturers could throw cheap Eleutherococcus senticosus (a.k.a. “Siberian Ginseng”) into their products and legally print “ginseng” on their labels. They can longer deceive the public in this way.

However, much work needs be done to guard the consumer from outright Ginseng fraud and worse. Some beverages sold in America advertise PanaxGinseng as an ingredient yet contain little or no real ginseng, according to lab tests we have performed. More than this, the energy boost from these drinks comes not from Ginseng but from “juiced-up” levels of synthetic U.S.P. caffeine, harmful in quantity.

Our products contain no added caffeine. The energy boost you get is an all-natural Gnseng boost, the very best kind.

Variability in commercial Ginseng products: an analysis of 25 preparations.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/73/6/1101

Note: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.