The Nerve Recovery Max Supplement Facts panel, and the one line that does not recompute

Check 01

The panel, transcribed line for line

This is the one document supplied with this stock that is legally required to be accurate, so it is transcribed.

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Serving Size 2 Capsules · Servings Per Container 30 · ** Daily Value (DV) not established.

This panel carries no proprietary blend. No group of ingredients shares one declared weight, so every amount here is the manufacturer’s own printed figure and none had to be derived from a declaration order. Four lines carry a percentage, three recompute, and the fourth is wrong by a factor of 1,000 rather than by a point or two, which is what makes it findable without a laboratory. Below them the panel prints Hypromellose (vegetable capsule), Oat Fiber Powder, Brown Rice Flour, Magnesium Stearate, Silicon Dioxide, then the distributor block.

Check 02

The one line that cannot be right: 1.7 mcg and 100%

The panel prints Vitamin B6 (as Pyridoxine hydrochloride) at 1.7 mcg with 100%. Three sentences of regulation and one division settle it.

So the printed unit and the printed percentage cannot both be true. There are two readings and this page gives both rather than choosing. Either the amount is the typo and the serving carries 1.7 mg, or the unit is right and the percentage should read 0%. Nothing supplied settles which. The label wins on what it says; the regulation wins on what the unit means. 1.7 mcg against a 1.7 mg Daily Value is 0.1%, which rounds to 0% - not the 100% printed beside it.

Check 03

What proves it is a typo: the other three recompute exactly

A wrong percentage could be a different convention or table. Here it is neither, and the reason is the three lines beside it.

Vitamin D3 at 20 mcg against a 20 mcg Daily Value is 100%, the easy case because the units match. Folate 383 mcg DFE against 400 mcg DFE is 95.75%, rounding to 96%. Vitamin B12 2 mcg against 2.4 mcg is 83.33%, rounding to 83%. Neither of the last two is round, and neither was rounded in the flattering direction.

That is what makes the B6 line a typo rather than a convention. A panel written from a different table does not get three of four right to the percent and miss the fourth by a factor of 1,000. The error is one unit on one line; the rest of the column is evidence of care.

Check 04

The folate line is right, and it is the best line on the panel

This check finds nothing wrong. The folate line is the one place on this label where the manufacturer did something that takes real care.

The line prints three numbers about one ingredient: 383 mcg DFE, the parenthetical 230 mcg folic acid, and 96%. They have to agree through a factor the regulation sets out in a footnote rather than in the table, which is where this line usually goes wrong. Footnote 7 to the table at 21 CFR 101.9(c)(8)(iv) reads: “DFE = Dietary Folate Equivalents; 1 DFE = 1 mcg naturally occurring folate = 0.6 mcg folic acid.” ^{21 CFR 101.9} So the conversion is a division rather than a multiplication, and that is the step a careless label reverses.

230 divided by 0.6 is 383.33, and to the whole microgram 383 mcg DFE, exactly what the panel prints. Then 383 mcg DFE against the 400 mcg DFE Daily Value is 95.75%, which rounds to 96%, and the panel prints 96%. Both halves are right, and the second only because the first was.

• The parenthetical is the harder half. A label may print a folate figure in DFE and say nothing about the form behind it. This one names the form and its weight, which makes the conversion checkable.
• The rounding went the right way. 383.33 to the whole microgram is 383, not 384.
• It is the only line here with two steps. The other three are one division each.

So no page here presents the folate line as an error, and saying that plainly is what makes Check 02 worth reading.

Check 05

What this panel does properly, set out in full

Three things on this label are done properly and all three are published here: it prints an amount for every one of the ten things it declares, it carries the symbol the regulation asks for against all six lines with no established Daily Value, and its folate line is exactly right.

• Every amount is printed. All ten declared things carry their own figure and none of them sits inside a proprietary blend.
• The symbol convention is used correctly. 21 CFR 101.36 asks that “Other dietary ingredients shall bear a symbol (e.g., an asterisk) in the column under the heading of “% Daily Value”” ^{21 CFR 101.36}. This panel carries a double asterisk against all six lines with no established Daily Value, and prints the footnote underneath: ** Daily Value (DV) not established.
• The folate line is exactly right, in both steps, as Check 04 works through.
• The forms and the plant parts are named. Cholecalciferol, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, methylcobalamin, and root, leaf and root.
• The servings arithmetic resolves exactly. 60 capsules at 2 capsules a serving is 30, and the panel declares 30.

That list is longer than the finding above it and printed at the same size on purpose.

And four things it does not print

The last of those runs the opposite way to everything above it. Both facts are published here. The panel is transcribed in full; the price and the guarantee are not published and this site prints no figure for either.