What is citrinin and is it present in Real Natural Remedies Red Yeast Rice?
Citrinin is a toxin that has been found in lower quality red yeast rice products. Real Natural Remedies Red Yeast Rice (BioCor), BioCor +Q10 and Pro BioCor contain no citrinin. To understand citrinin read this excerpt from a consumerlabs.com report. “The following: Contamination: A potential toxin, citrinin, was found in four of the ten supplements:Solary – 14 mcg/pill, Natural Balance- 58 mcg/pill, VegLife – 70mcg/pill, and Walgreens 114 mcg/pill. Ironically, these are also the products with the lowest amounts of lovastatin. Daily citrinin exposure may be higher based on serving sizes. It is not possible to know if these levels are toxic due to a lack of human study, but it would seem prudent to avoid red yeast rice products which contain citrinin. To provide some frame of reference on citrinin exposure, an unusually high level of chronic kidney disease (associated with tumors) is known to exist in the Balkans where there is elevated exposure to citrinin and another mycotoxin (Gupta 2
