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Does fish oil that is meg-3, purified to remove mercury and usp verified, contain purines? the fish oil is made from anchovies, sardines, and mackerel
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No: Purines are one of the building blocks of nucleic acids (think: genes). Ground up fish will contain purines but purified fish oil contains...fats. No purines.
Answered 9/17/2014
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