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["WILLIAM JONES" <billj AT harborside.com>]

There's nothing that fancy here, no genetically-modified safflower.  The 
label merely states "total omega 6" whichincludes both GLA and linoleic acid. 
 Better brands tally these separately without confusion.  BTW the brand name 
isNature Made Triple Omega.  It's a total fraud if your goal is to obtain 
GLA.  I'd also mention it's impossible to tellhow much fish oil there is, or 
the amount of IPA and DHA present.  That's because they're all lumped 
together as "omega3" fatty acids along with linolenic acid.  It's exactly the 
fraud I once predicted. I love the hempseed oil thing, but I would still want 
to take fish oil, since fish is too expensive to eat, and I'venever eaten 
brains, the only other source that I know of. I've been trying to find data 
on evening primrose seed, which is abundantly produced from a beautiful 
native plant.I'm just not sure how much GLA it has, and the commercial crap 
online has ruined web surfing for me. Lynda wrote:>There is GLA safflower 
which is not the generic safflower and does
>contain gamma linolenic acid.
>Also, it is in hemp seed oil which has oleic, linoleic acid, CLA, GLA
>and linolenic acid.
>At anyrate, you could get an oil that has all 3.
>Lynda
>>A few years back I pointed out that it was not enough to say a fatty
>>acid is "omega 3" or such.  I predicted that this tendency would lead
>>to people being defrauded for things like safflower oil, a source of
>>nothing special.  Well now it's here.  We bought one brand that
>>touted that it had omegas -3, -6, and -9!  Well, the omega-6 acid is
>>not gamma linolenic acid, which only occurs in rare oils like borage
>>seed oil, evening primrose, and black currant, but just plain old
>linoleic acid from safflower oil, which is easy to get and not worth
>>buying in pill form.