Why a bottle from Florida starts in New Zealand
Perna canaliculus, the green-lipped mussel, grows nowhere else on earth in the quantities this takes.
It is farmed in the Marlborough Sounds, at the top of New Zealand's South Island, and it needs about eighteen months in the water before the oil is worth extracting. The extract, PCSO-524, is drawn off without solvents, shipped to Fort Lauderdale to be formulated and bottled, and then brought here.
That is a long way to go for one ingredient, and it is most of the reason the product costs what it does. It is also more than most supplement labels can tell you about where anything in the bottle came from.








