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Once I'm able to get to the article I'm interested in reading, all is good. Very informative, well- researched, and thorough. I also appreciate the continual updates in yellow highlights. Now here's what needs to be improved. When I receive an email highlighting an interesting article, I click on the link, read a brief summary and then to go to the full article I need to log in. However, after I log in, it doesn't take me back to the article and I have to search for it. It's a huge time waster.

The product reviews get worse as you test obscure brands when most of us use the popular brands by known manufacturers. For instance, you have reviewed neither Nature's Bounty nor Puritan's Pride in over two years. What's the mattter? PP was sold evidently, but it remains a popular brand. Also Vitamin World. I buy a lot of Vitamin Shoppe's products, nary a review. Swanson? Same. Shiff, same. GNC, sometimes.

I rely on CL's reviews of nutritional supplements and ancillary health-related products (such as water- and air- filters) in choosing appropriate porducts for myself and my family--but I have found that in the last couple of years, the brands they choose to review--and update--are not the brands that I have interest in and are most accessible. Further, CL is choosing to 'recycle' reviews more often rather than review new science and new (and promising) supplements. I am not sure whether this is a result of the general, pandemic-related slow down in virtually everything, but after being a member for many years (10+), I'm not sure I'll renew my membership.

Consumerlab.com does not test every manufacturer and the format of the info downright SUCKS. It's very confusing because they will do everything in paragraph for all clumped together. Then the list the Top Pick which is always something different than what was in the paragraphs. So, are they saying top pic based on cost, quality, quantity? I truly is a mystery. Let me choose the top pick not you. Is very confusing. If they put as much effort into to the layout of information as they do with the testing this site would be amazing but at this time i feel is BS.

General info useful but reviews on the same brands over and over are not.
Most of the time the brands I use are never reviewed. For instance, Protein Powder/ I use SUNWARRIER PROTEIN ORGANIC WARRIOR BLEND IN BOTH CHOCOLAT AND VANILLA. Sold at CVS.and Vitamin Shoppe Never shows up in your reviews. Very annoying.
Also KOS protein powder, same, You NEVER review it!
Magnesium Taurate capsules from Cardiovascular Researcch.No reviews by you!
Probably wont renew if you continue to ignore these popular items

I find that your subjects reviewed are important and current.
I find it a little bird to quickly read what I've already paid for.
The must be a way that a member doesn't have to find it necessary. My email address should be my ticket to get in. Easily.

The content of your reviews is excellent. However, your review pages become increasingly long as information is added, and there is no "Back to Top" feature available.

I am scrolling,, scrolling, scrolling only to get tiny segments of info. I can't see a complete assay of any item on one page only (like a label). This means I have to rely on manufacturers labels online. What's the point?

1. I want you to address why you don't cover whole-food vitamins instead you have just lab produced vitamins.
2. Your articles should have a conclusion as they are too long.

I usually buy supplements based on your reviews. But sometimes when you do an update, that top rated product is not reviewed in the update, yet it is still available. What happened?

We want to take supplements and vitamins to better our life. It is good to know that someone is trying to make the supplier and manufacturer honest about what they are selling.

Although I have benefitted from a lot of the reviews, I don't see some of my sources included like Stop Aging Now.
I would also like to see updates re improvements such as which chocolate producers have lessened cadmium in their products.

The reviews were through and thoughtful. I trusted them.
Once I had reviewed what was relevant to me the value of the service dropped. Not every supplement or brand I was interested in was reviewed.
Your weekly updates are ok but I believe they are old info available in the body of your information.

Love the info but the site is difficult to use. I'll click wanting to read additional info Top Picks or a report.
The site has me re-enter sign in again & then not take me to specific info I requested
I get frustrated & exit the site when this happens.
Please fix this!

1. To fail a product because they don't meet their own high labelled standards, and to pass a product that meets their own poor labelled standards makes no sense. 2. You have lost your perspective. Harvard (https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/new-prescription-drugs-major-health-risk-few-offsetting-advantages) indicates 128,000 people die of prescriptions drugs each year. In 2010, not one person died by taking a vitamin. To indicate vitamins have no value for certain problems because of a lack of RCT testing is missing the forest for the trees. Besides, we are coming to realize that medical testing is fraught with statistical problems (https://www.nature.com/articles/d*******0874-8). You need to reevaluate what constitutes valid research.

We have subscribed to ConsumerLab for over six years now. We are very much into natural and holistic health and, obviously, find ConsumerLab very helpful. Their subscription rate is $56 or $59 for two years and you can cancel at anytime, which we have done with no problem. We missed it so subscribed again. It is auto-renewed like almost every other subscription we have, so if you don't cancel it will charge your credit card again. Their website shows a great number of lab test findings which failed their tests. They also show even more companies who pass. The companies who fail are able to submit their differences of opinion or findings which are published by ConsumerLab along with the rest of their info. The FDA does not test supplements so we are at the mercy of any fly-by-night that chooses to go into business. The FDA does have guidelines which ConsumerLab checks to see that these are met as part of their testing. They test to assure that the supplement contains what it says it does, as well as tests that they contain no toxic materials. They show results of tons of research done by others around the world to educate members on what vitamins/supplements actually do and do not do for our health. The CEO of the company has testified before congress regarding legislation pertaining to vitamins and supplements. Sounds pretty well-respected to us!

There are some very good articles with an abundance of information... my issue is that so many times the items that are reviewed do not include many of the items i can purchase on sites like Swanson... so it is difficult to make a comparison

They are giving me preliminary access to the types of tests and their results for a few different supplements. This will help me to decide if I'd like to be a member.

I like the information received but there needs to be more frequent product reviews and of more companies to make it worth the price