Is Sports Research fish oil third party tested?
Our pick for each type, each format ranked separately: Fish Oil, capsules, softgels and tablets: Nature Made Omega-3 from Fish Oil 1200 mg (100 softgels); Algal Oil: Momentous Vegan Omega-3 (60 capsules) (before delivery). Types with no certified product are listed below. Where to buy
Partly. IFOS (International Fish Oil Standards) lists some of the Sports Research fish oil and omega-3 we track. We also searched NSF Certified for Sport, USP Verified, Informed Sport and Informed Choice and found no listing.
IFOS reports test results lot by lot, and its directory names a product line and no package, so a listing here says the line is in the program with its results published, not that the bottle in your hand was the lot tested.
| Product | Per 1,000 mg EPA+DHA | NSF Certified for Sport | IFOS (International Fish Oil Standards) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaskan Omega-3 Fish Oil, Triple Strength 1250 mg (30 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.651 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0002 |
| Alaskan Omega-3 Fish Oil, Triple Strength 1250 mg (90 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.365 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0002 |
| Alaskan Omega-3 Fish Oil, Triple Strength 1250 mg (180 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.334 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0002 |
| Alaskan Omega-3 Fish Oil, Triple Strength 1250 mg (240 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.314 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0002 |
| Alaskan Omega-3 Fish Oil Mini-Gels 625 mg (120 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.51 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0061 |
| Alaskan Omega-3 Fish Oil Mini-Gels 625 mg (240 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.395 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0061 |
| DHA 700 Omega-3, Wild Caught (90 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | Unknown | No listing found | Listed SPRT0084 |
| Total Omega-3, Full-Spectrum (120 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.893 | No listing found | No listing found |
| Omega-3 Fish Oil Liquid, Lemon (8 oz) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $0.383 | No listing found | Listed SPRT0080 |
| Vegan DHA 700 Omega-3 from Algae Oil (90 veggie softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | Unknown | No listing found | No listing found |
| Omega-3 Krill Oil Mini-Gels 500 mg (120 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $2.72 | No listing found | No listing found |
| Omega-3 Krill Oil, Double Strength 1000 mg (60 softgels) (last known price, Oct 17) check price | $2.63 | No listing found | No listing found |
The directory we read for IFOS (International Fish Oil Standards) lists Total Omega-3, Full-Spectrum (120 softgels); Vegan DHA 700 Omega-3 from Algae Oil (90 veggie softgels); Omega-3 Krill Oil Mini-Gels 500 mg (120 softgels); and Omega-3 Krill Oil, Double Strength 1000 mg (60 softgels) under IGEN, IAOS or IKOS, programs this site does not record, so that column reads “No listing found” for them.
A missing listing is an absence in a database, not a failed test. These programs certify what a company submits to them, so an absence records what was submitted, not anything found in the product.
The programs check different things: NSF Certified for Sport vs Informed Sport vs Informed Choice. Every brand in this category, by program: Which fish oil and omega-3 brands are third-party tested?
Every Sports Research product we track, across all categories: Is Sports Research third party tested?
Where to buy: the pick for each type
The pick is the cheapest certified product, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no adverse finding on record, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving; per delivered dose where the retailer publishes a delivery rate. Where none does, it is the cheapest such product before delivery, and it says how far the order is from free delivery. It is the same pick the category page shows.
How these lines are chosen
Among 54 products and 54 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. This one clears the certification bar; what holds it back is on its line:
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. This one misses at least one bar, and says which:
How these lines are chosen
Among 4 products and 4 retailer listings we track; Amazon and Walmart are not included. A month is thirty doses of the size in the heading, priced the same way as the per-dose figure beside it. “Delivery known” ranks only products whose retailer publishes a delivery rate; a cheaper product with an unpublished rate is on its own line, or in the full list below. No product here that clears every other bar publishes a delivery rate below its free-delivery threshold, so the pick is priced before delivery.
A pick has to be independently certified, at the exact package sold where the certifier names packages, with no recall or failed test, a price its retailer let us read recently, and no more than a year’s supply at the label’s serving. Where the retailer publishes no delivery rate, the pick is priced before delivery and says so. Nothing we track here clears all of those yet. This one misses at least one bar, and says which:
- Is Momentous fish oil NSF certified?
- What is the cheapest omega-3 per 1,000 mg of EPA+DHA?
- Why does my fish oil label not say how much EPA and DHA it has?
- Which fish oil and omega-3 brands are third-party tested?
- How many fish oil capsules make 1,000 mg of EPA and DHA?
- What is the cheapest NSF certified fish oil or omega-3?
Full comparison of every product in this category: Omega-3. Every question we answer: the question index.
What this rests on: prices we last recorded at the retailer named on each product page, which go stale, and each page says when it was checked; the products we track, not every product sold, and Amazon and Walmart are not among the stores; listings and labels read at the source, each linked from the page. Found an error? Tell us. The full method: How we compare.