SupplementsBrand ReviewAug 2026

Healthy Care Omega 3 Reviewed: Dose per Capsule and How It Compares

Healthy Care is an Australian supplement brand, and its fish oil is sold on a number that does not tell you very much: total fish oil. The figure the evidence is actually written in is EPA plus DHA per capsule, and it is printed on the back. Here is what that number is across the range, what a gram of it costs, what AUST L on the pack does and does not certify, and what the trials say happens at these daily amounts.

300 mg

EPA + DHA per 1000 mg capsule

70%

Of that capsule is not omega-3

6.5x

Cost gap per gram across the collection

What Is Actually In the Capsule

Take the 400 capsule bottle of Healthy Care Fish Oil 1000mg Omega-3. The active statement on the product page published by the brand reads: natural fish oil 1 g (1000 mg) containing omega-3 marine triglycerides 300 mg, as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) 180 mg and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) 120 mg. An Australian pharmacy listing for the same 400 capsule pack prints the identical statement alongside AUST L 182871.

The whole point in one line: 300 mg of the 1000 mg is omega-3. The other 700 mg is the rest of the fish oil, the fatty acids that travel with EPA and DHA in an unconcentrated marine oil.

That is not a defect and it is not unusual. A natural, unconcentrated fish oil sits at roughly 30 percent EPA plus DHA, and the number on the front of the bottle refers to the oil. The problem is comparison. Two bottles can both say 1000 mg and deliver very different amounts of the thing the research is about, because the trial doses and the guideline figures are stated as EPA and DHA, not as grams of fish oil.

The label direction printed for adults on this product is one capsule three times daily with food, which works out to 900 mg of EPA plus DHA a day. That is the label speaking, not a recommendation from this page. If you want the background on what EPA and DHA are and how much people generally get from food, that sits in the omega-3 guide. This page is only about the brand.

The Range, Sorted by EPA Plus DHA

The table below covers five products from the Healthy Care omega-3 collection: the two 1000 mg capsules, the 400 capsule odourless 2000 mg, Triple Strength, and the 95 percent concentrate. The figures come from the per capsule active ingredient statement on the product page published by the brand, read on 5 August 2026.

The collection lists more than those five, and we should be clear about what the table leaves out. A wild salmon oil, a fish oil plus krill blend, a fish oil plus vitamin D and a 200 capsule size of the odourless 2000 mg all publish their per capsule EPA and DHA in the same place as the five above, and the numbers are already familiar: 180 mg EPA and 120 mg DHA for the first three, and 360 mg with 240 mg for the odourless. The omega 3-6-9 blend declares 60 mg EPA and 40 mg DHA. Only the cod liver oil gives no per capsule EPA and DHA at all. They sit outside the table because each one either repeats a formula the table already covers at a different pack size, or adds a second oil or a vitamin on top. Their prices still count, so the five of them that publish a per capsule figure are worked out alongside the others in the cost section below. Every one of those five costs more per gram than the four cheapest products in the table, and only the omega 3-6-9 blend costs more than the 95 percent concentrate.

Product	Oil declared per capsule	EPA / DHA	EPA + DHA	Adult direction on label	Per day at that direction
Fish Oil 1000mg Omega-3	Natural fish oil 1 g	180 / 120 mg	300 mg	1 capsule 3 times daily	900 mg
Premium Fish Oil 1000mg	Fish oil 1000 mg	180 / 120 mg	300 mg	1 capsule 3 times daily	900 mg
Odourless Fish Oil 2000mg	Natural fish oil 2 g	360 / 240 mg	600 mg	1 capsule 2 times daily	1200 mg
Triple Strength Fish Oil	Concentrated fish omega-3 triglycerides 1.5 g	600 / 300 mg	900 mg	1 capsule daily	900 mg
95% High Concentration Omega-3	Concentrated fish omega-3 triglycerides 1.06 g	550 / 450 mg	1000 mg	1 capsule daily	1000 mg

Read the last column and the range collapses. Follow each label as written and all five land between 900 and 1200 mg of EPA plus DHA a day. What changes as you move up the range is how many capsules you swallow to get there, from three down to one. The nutrient is close to constant; the convenience is what is being sold.

The Triple Strength name is arithmetically honest: 900 mg of EPA plus DHA against 300 mg in the standard capsule is exactly three times.
The two 1000 mg products declare identical actives, 180 mg EPA and 120 mg DHA. The difference between them is pack size and price, not dose.
The EPA to DHA ratio shifts across the range: about 1.5 to 1 in the natural oils, 2 to 1 in Triple Strength, and about 1.2 to 1 in the 95 percent concentrate.
Two of the five declare concentrated fish omega-3 triglycerides. The other three declare natural, unconcentrated fish oil at roughly 30 percent EPA plus DHA.

What a Gram of Omega-3 Costs Inside the Range

Price per bottle is not comparable when the bottles hold different amounts of the nutrient. Price per gram of EPA plus DHA is. The figures below use the list prices shown on the Australian online store run by the brand on 5 August 2026, in Australian dollars, multiplied out against the per capsule figures in the table above.

Product	Pack	Listed price	EPA + DHA in pack	Cost per gram
Fish Oil 1000mg Omega-3	400 capsules	AUD 29.99	120 g	AUD 0.25
Premium Fish Oil 1000mg	200 capsules	AUD 17.42	60 g	AUD 0.29
Triple Strength Fish Oil	150 capsules	AUD 39.59	135 g	AUD 0.29
Odourless Fish Oil 2000mg	400 capsules	AUD 71.99	240 g	AUD 0.30
95% High Concentration Omega-3	60 capsules	AUD 42.00	60 g	AUD 0.70

Four of the five sit within a few cents of each other, between about AUD 0.25 and AUD 0.30 per gram of EPA plus DHA. The 95 percent concentrate sits at about AUD 0.70, roughly 2.8 times the cheapest bottle in the table. Moving up the range does not buy more omega-3 per dollar. It buys fewer capsules per day.

Run the same arithmetic on the rest of the collection and the gap widens a long way past that. On the same list prices, the 200 capsule odourless 2000 mg works out at about AUD 0.40 per gram, the wild salmon oil at about AUD 0.42, the fish oil plus krill at about AUD 0.44, the fish oil plus vitamin D at about AUD 0.46, and the omega 3-6-9 blend at about AUD 1.62, which is roughly 6.5 times the cheapest bottle in the collection. The pattern is consistent: the plainest, largest bottle of unconcentrated fish oil is the cheapest way to buy a gram of EPA plus DHA here, and every blend and every smaller pack costs more.

Three caveats, because this arithmetic is easy to over read. These are Australian list prices, and several products were showing as sold out at the moment we read them, so they may not be current. Vietnamese retail prices are set by importers and will not track them. And this compares products inside one brand only; it says nothing about how the brand ranks against any other, which would need the same calculation run on those labels.

What AUST L on the Pack Does Not Mean

Australian supplements carry an AUST L number, and it is easy to read that as an approval stamp. It is not one. It is a listing.

Listed medicines are added to the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods conditional upon a declaration that information regarding their quality, safety and efficacy is held by the sponsor. That framing comes from a 2026 analysis in the Internal Medicine Journal by J. McEwen of the University of Canberra, published online ahead of print, which examined how often the Therapeutic Goods Administration actually looks at that evidence. In compliance review reports published in 2022 and 2023, of 215 targeted reviews, 62 recorded some degree of assessment of issues related to efficacy, and in six of those reports there were details of a critical appraisal of the evidence held by the sponsor. Separately, 33 of those 62 medicines had used indications not permitted under Australian regulations. The author concluded that reliance on targeted reviews has meant about 2 percent of medicines added to the register have had their efficacy evidence reviewed, and that, contrary to current TGA documents, no random review has been conducted since December 2018.

Read that carefully. Those numbers describe Australian listed medicines as a class, across every category from vitamins to herbal products. They are not a finding about this brand, they are not about fish oil in particular, and nothing here implies any compliance action against any Healthy Care product.

What the AUST L number does tell you is real and worth something: an Australian sponsor has taken on a regulated obligation, the product sits inside a system with audits, recall powers and compliance reviews, and the number can be looked up. The register entry for Healthy Care Fish Oil 1000mg Omega-3 is 182871.

One honesty note about our own checking. The TGA website would not load from our network on 5 August 2026, so we did not read the register entry or the licensed manufacturer list ourselves. The number 182871 comes from the address of the register page for this product and from an Australian pharmacy listing printing AUST L 182871 next to the identical active statement. Manufacturing standards and efficacy evaluation are also separate systems, and the about page published by the company names TGA and cGMP standards for its Belrose, New South Wales facility. We could not verify that site licence, so treat it as the claim of the company rather than as something confirmed here.

What the Trials Say Happens at These Doses

Every label in the table above lands a user somewhere between 900 and 1200 mg of EPA plus DHA a day. The large outcome trials did not test that band, and it is worth being exact about why, because it is the same oil versus nutrient confusion this page started with. A trial headline dose is often the capsule size, and the capsule is not the nutrient. VITAL and ASCEND both used a 1 g capsule holding 840 mg of marine omega-3, EPA 460 mg plus DHA 380 mg, which is below every row in the table above. DREAM stated its dose as EPA and DHA directly, 3000 mg a day, well above these labels. So read each result below as what happened at the dose that trial actually gave, not as what a Healthy Care label delivers. The results are also more mixed than fish oil marketing suggests, and each one belongs to the population that was studied.

Cochrane review, 2020

86 randomised trials, 162,796 participants, adults at varying cardiovascular risk, mainly in high income countries. Increasing long chain omega-3 made little or no difference to all cause mortality (RR 0.97, 95% CI 0.93 to 1.01, high certainty) or to cardiovascular events (RR 0.96, 95% CI 0.92 to 1.01, high certainty). It may slightly reduce coronary heart disease mortality (RR 0.90, 95% CI 0.81 to 1.00) and coronary heart disease events (RR 0.91, 95% CI 0.85 to 0.97), both rated low certainty. The clearest effect was on blood fats: long chain omega-3 reduced triglycerides by about 15 percent in a dose dependent way, rated high certainty.

VITAL, 2019

A two by two factorial trial in the United States that tested marine omega-3 and vitamin D at the same time, in men aged 50 and over and women aged 55 and over at usual risk. The supplement is reported as a 1 g per day fish oil capsule containing 840 mg of n-3 fatty acids, made up of EPA 460 mg and DHA 380 mg, so the daily EPA plus DHA was 840 mg and not 1000 mg. A total of 25,871 participants underwent randomisation. Over a median 5.3 years a major cardiovascular event occurred in 386 participants in the omega-3 group and 419 in the placebo group (HR 0.92, 95% CI 0.80 to 1.06, P=0.24), so the primary cardiovascular endpoint was not met. Among the secondary endpoints, total myocardial infarction was lower (HR 0.72, 95% CI 0.59 to 0.90), while total stroke (HR 1.04, 95% CI 0.83 to 1.31) and death from cardiovascular causes (HR 0.96, 95% CI 0.76 to 1.21) were not. A secondary endpoint inside a trial that missed its primary endpoint is a lead worth following, not a conclusion.

ASCEND, 2018

15,480 patients with diabetes and no evidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, randomly assigned to 1 g capsules of omega-3 fatty acids or matching olive oil placebo daily, mean follow up 7.4 years. The ASCEND investigators give the contents of that capsule as 460 mg of EPA and 380 mg of DHA, so 840 mg of EPA plus DHA a day, the same daily amount as VITAL and below every row in the table above rather than the 1000 mg the 1 g capsule size suggests. A serious vascular event occurred in 689 patients (8.9 percent) in the fatty acid group and 712 (9.2 percent) in the placebo group (rate ratio 0.97, 95% CI 0.87 to 1.08). That result belongs to people with diabetes and no established cardiovascular disease, and should not be read across to everyone.

DREAM, 2018

Dry eye is a common reason people buy fish oil. In this trial, patients with moderate to severe dry eye disease were assigned to 3000 mg a day of fish derived EPA and DHA (349 patients) or an olive oil placebo (186 patients). Symptom scores on the Ocular Surface Disease Index improved in both groups, by 13.9 points with the supplement and 12.5 points with placebo, and the difference between groups was not statistically significant (P=0.21). Signs measured on the eye surface, including conjunctival and corneal staining, tear break-up time and the Schirmer test, showed no significant differences either. Note that 3000 mg a day is well above what any of the labels above produce.

Atrial fibrillation signal, 2021

A meta-analysis in Circulation of seven cardiovascular outcome trials, 81,210 patients, mean age 65, weighted average follow up 4.9 years, found marine omega-3 supplementation associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation (HR 1.25, 95% CI 1.07 to 1.46). The risk appeared greater in trials testing more than 1 g a day (HR 1.49, 95% CI 1.04 to 2.15) than in trials testing 1 g a day or less (HR 1.12, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.22). Of those patients, 58,939 were enrolled in the trials testing 1 g a day or less and 22,271 in the trials testing more than that.

None of that makes fish oil pointless. It narrows the honest claim: a reliable triglyceride effect, a possible small effect on coronary heart disease outcomes at low certainty, no demonstrated effect on all cause mortality, and a rhythm signal that gets larger with dose. Whether any of it applies to one particular person, and whether that atrial fibrillation finding matters given their history and medicines, is a question for a doctor or pharmacist rather than a label or a page like this one.

Does the Number on the Label Hold Up

Everything above assumes the 300 mg is really 300 mg. That assumption has been tested on markets, though not on this brand, and the published answers disagree with each other in a way that is worth seeing in full rather than cherry picked.

The academic survey, New Zealand market

Albert and colleagues at the University of Auckland measured 32 encapsulated fish oil supplements marketed in New Zealand, and the paper says four more products were identified later and tested for oxidation but not for EPA and DHA content. The two halves of the study therefore have different denominators, which is easy to miss. On content, three of the 32 contained EPA and DHA equal to or above labelled content, and most products tested, 69 percent, contained less than 67 percent of the labelled amount. On oxidation the denominator is 36: 30 of 36 (83 percent) exceeded recommended peroxide values, 9 of 36 (25 percent) exceeded anisidine thresholds and 18 of 36 (50 percent) exceeded recommended total oxidation values, with 3 of 36 (8 percent) exceeding none of those indices. The authors also reported that best before date, cost, country of origin and exclusivity were all poor markers of supplement quality. The paper carries a published corrigendum from 2016.

The industry survey, same market

Two years later, 47 fish oil products on the New Zealand market were analysed in a collaboration coordinated by GOED, a trade association of companies active in the omega-3 sector, with authors employed by GOED and by contributing commercial laboratories, disclosed in the competing interests statement of the paper. That analysis found 91 percent of the 47 complied with EPA and DHA content claims and 72 percent of the 47 complied with the voluntary industry limit on peroxide value. The other two figures, 86 percent for anisidine value and 77 percent for total oxidation, are not out of 47. They cover only the 22 unflavoured oils, because 25 of the 47 declared flavourings and flavourings interfere with the anisidine test. Applied to all 47, anisidine compliance was 64 percent, which the paper reports directly, and that is 22 points lower than the unflavoured figure. Against the less stringent limits used by the European and British Pharmacopeia and the Australian authorities, 98 percent complied with a peroxide limit of 10 meq O2/kg and 96 percent with a total oxidation value of 50, and the paper states that all complied with an anisidine limit of 30, although its own anisidine table lists ten flavoured oils with averages above 30. The authors described their findings as in stark contrast to the earlier assessment and discussed possible reasons for the discrepancy.

A third market, France

A 2022 analysis of 20 unflavoured omega-3 supplements sold in the French market reported that almost all met their label claims for omega-3 content, and that all of them complied with the peroxide, anisidine and total oxidation limits set by GOED.

Two surveys of the same country reached close to opposite conclusions using different sampling and different methods, and the reassuring one was run by the industry trade body. That is not a reason to dismiss either. It is a reason to notice what survives all three: the number on a supplement label is a claim made by the sponsor, and an independent assay of a specific product is what settles it.

On that specific point, we found no independent per batch assay of Healthy Care oil, and no batch certificates of analysis published on the product pages we read on 5 August 2026. We are not scoring that as a mark against the brand. It is simply the difference between a figure you can check and one you have to take on trust, and some manufacturers do publish accredited third party reports on their own product pages. Our Ostrovit review works through what published lab reports can and cannot tell you when a brand does provide them.

Checking a Bottle Bought in Vietnam

An imported Australian bottle sold in Vietnam has to satisfy two separate sets of rules, and both of them leave a paper trail a buyer can ask to see. Neither depends on judging the packaging by eye, which is the weakest check available to anyone.

On labelling: Decree 111/2021/ND-CP, dated 9 December 2021, amends Decree 43/2017/ND-CP on goods labelling. In the summary and unofficial translation published by the United States Department of Agriculture, Article 1.5.2 requires the original label of imported goods to carry the name of the goods, the origin of the goods, and the name or abbreviated name of the manufacturer or the entity responsible for the goods in the country of origin, in a foreign language or in Vietnamese. Article 1.5.2 point c2 requires importers to add an extra label with the mandatory content translated into Vietnamese before placing the goods on the Vietnamese market, where the original label is in a foreign language. Because that is an unofficial translation, treat the article numbers as a pointer to the Vietnamese text rather than as the text itself.

On the product itself: health supplements fall under Decree 15/2018/ND-CP, and the route open to them is registration, not self declaration. Article 4 of that decree applies self declaration to prepackaged processed foods other than the products listed in Article 6, and Article 6 begins with health supplements, medical foods and foods for special dietary uses. So a health supplement has to have a registered product declaration with the Ministry of Health, and a seller who offers a self declaration instead is offering the wrong document. For an imported health supplement the dossier includes a food safety test result issued within the previous 12 months by a designated laboratory or one complying with ISO 17025, scientific evidence for the effects of the product or its ingredients, and, applicable since 1 July 2019, a certificate of Good Manufacturing Practice or equivalent.

1Look for a Vietnamese supplementary label on the bottle, naming the importer. An imported pack carrying only the Australian label has skipped a required step.
2Check that the original Australian label states the origin and names the entity responsible for the goods in the country of origin.
3Look up the AUST L number printed on the pack in the Australian register. For Healthy Care Fish Oil 1000mg Omega-3 the entry is 182871.
4Read the back panel for EPA and DHA in milligrams, not the front panel total. A relabelled or repackaged product can reproduce the front convincingly while the actives panel is wrong or missing.
5Ask the seller for the registered product declaration filed with the Ministry of Health. That is the document a health supplement needs, and a legitimate importer has it.

What none of those five checks does is measure the oil. They tell you the shipment was handled by someone who followed the rules. They do not tell you the EPA and DHA in the capsule matches the panel, and they do not tell you whether the oil is fresh. If that distinction matters for a particular purchase, a pharmacist is the right person to bring the bottle to.

Is the Imported Premium Justified

Split it into what we could verify, what the arithmetic shows, and what we could not check.

What holds up

The labels break EPA and DHA out in milligrams per capsule rather than hiding behind a total oil figure, which is the information a buyer needs and the thing that made this comparison possible at all. The product naming survives its own arithmetic: Triple Strength really does deliver three times the EPA plus DHA of the standard capsule. The brand is a real Australian sponsor with a listed product and a register entry that can be looked up.

What the money does not buy

Inside this range, moving up does not get you more omega-3 per dollar. Four of the five products in the table land between about AUD 0.25 and AUD 0.30 per gram of EPA plus DHA and the 95 percent concentrate lands near AUD 0.70. Across the whole collection the spread is wider still, running to about AUD 1.62 per gram for the omega 3-6-9 blend, roughly 6.5 times the cheapest bottle. What the premium buys is one capsule a day instead of three. For somebody who abandons a supplement because three capsules a day is too much friction, that can be the deciding factor, and it is a fair thing to pay for. It is just not more nutrient.

What we could not verify

No independent assay of this brand oil, in any market, that we could find. No batch certificates of analysis on the product pages. No direct read of the TGA register entry or the licensed manufacturer list, because the TGA site would not load from our network on 5 August 2026. And no Vietnamese retail pricing we could stand behind, since importers set that.

The decision that actually matters is upstream of the brand. Whether to take a fish oil supplement at all depends heavily on how much oily fish is already in the diet, which the omega-3 guide covers, and it sits alongside the other supplements with real evidence in the best supplements ranking. Once that question is settled, the brand comparison is just the arithmetic above.

The Short Version

Healthy Care Fish Oil 1000mg declares 300 mg of EPA plus DHA per capsule, 180 EPA and 120 DHA. The 1000 mg on the front is the oil, not the omega-3.
Across the five products in the table, the label directions all land between 900 and 1200 mg of EPA plus DHA a day. The range sells fewer capsules, not more nutrient.
Per gram of EPA plus DHA, four of the five in the table sit near AUD 0.25 to 0.30 and the 95 percent concentrate near AUD 0.70. Across the whole omega-3 collection the spread runs from about AUD 0.25 to about AUD 1.62 for the omega 3-6-9 blend, roughly 6.5 times.
AUST L is a listing, not an approval. Australian listed medicines go on the register on a declaration made by the sponsor, and a 2026 Internal Medicine Journal analysis put the share whose efficacy evidence was reviewed at about 2 percent.
The big trials did not test this exact daily amount. VITAL and ASCEND each gave 840 mg of EPA plus DHA a day, below every label in the table, and DREAM gave 3000 mg, well above. At the doses they did use: triglycerides down about 15 percent (high certainty), coronary heart disease outcomes possibly slightly better (low certainty), all cause mortality unchanged, and an atrial fibrillation signal that grows with dose.
Two surveys of the New Zealand market disagreed sharply on whether labels hold up, and the reassuring one was run by the industry trade body. Neither tested this brand.
In Vietnam, check for the Vietnamese supplementary label and the importer registered product declaration, which is what a health supplement needs rather than a self declaration. Paperwork verifies the shipment, not the oil.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much EPA and DHA is in a Healthy Care fish oil capsule?+

The active statement on the Healthy Care Fish Oil 1000mg Omega-3 product page reads: natural fish oil 1 g (1000 mg) containing omega-3 marine triglycerides 300 mg as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) 180 mg and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) 120 mg. So 300 mg of the 1000 mg is omega-3 and the remaining 700 mg is the rest of the fish oil. The 1000 mg on the front of the bottle is the oil, not the nutrient.

Which Healthy Care omega-3 gives the most EPA and DHA per capsule?+

Of the ten products in the Healthy Care omega-3 collection whose per capsule figures we read on the brand site, the 95% High Concentration Omega-3 declares the most: concentrated fish omega-3 triglycerides 1.06 g with EPA 550 mg and DHA 450 mg, so 1000 mg of EPA plus DHA in one capsule. Triple Strength declares 900 mg (EPA 600, DHA 300), both pack sizes of the Odourless 2000mg declare 600 mg (EPA 360, DHA 240), the two 1000 mg products and the wild salmon, krill and vitamin D versions all declare 300 mg (EPA 180, DHA 120), and the omega 3-6-9 blend declares 100 mg (EPA 60, DHA 40). The cod liver oil publishes no per capsule EPA and DHA at all.

Is Healthy Care fish oil made in Australia?+

The about page published by the company gives an address at 5 Minna Close, Belrose, New South Wales 2085, says the brand was founded in 2006, and names TGA and cGMP standards for its production facilities. We could not reach the TGA website from our network on 5 August 2026 to read the licensed manufacturer list, so treat the site licence itself as unverified here rather than confirmed. Country of manufacture and country of raw material are also separate questions, and the pages we read do not state where the fish oil itself was sourced.

What does AUST L mean on a Healthy Care bottle?+

It means the product is listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, not that a regulator approved it. Listed medicines are added to the register conditional upon a declaration by the sponsor that information on quality, safety and efficacy is held by the sponsor. A 2026 analysis in the Internal Medicine Journal of TGA compliance review reports published in 2022 and 2023 found that, of 215 targeted reviews, 62 recorded some degree of assessment of efficacy issues and six contained details of a critical appraisal of the evidence held by the sponsor. Those figures cover Australian listed medicines as a class, not this brand.

How can I tell if Healthy Care omega 3 sold in Vietnam is genuine?+

Start with the paperwork rather than the packaging. Under Decree 111/2021/ND-CP, which amends Decree 43/2017/ND-CP, an imported product whose original label is in a foreign language needs an extra label with the mandatory content translated into Vietnamese before it goes on the market, and the original label must show the goods name, the origin, and the name of the manufacturer or the entity responsible in the country of origin. Health supplements also need a registered product declaration under Decree 15/2018/ND-CP, and a self declaration is not an option for them. Article 4 of that decree applies self declaration to prepackaged processed foods other than the products listed in Article 6, and Article 6 lists health supplements first, so the paperwork to ask for is a registered product declaration with the Ministry of Health. Checking those tells you the shipment was handled properly. It does not measure what is in the oil.

Sources and References

Peer reviewed literature. The country and the population each study covers is named in the text above rather than generalised.

Omega-3 fatty acids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease · Abdelhamid AS, Brown TJ, Brainard JS, et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (2020) PMID:32114706
Marine n-3 Fatty Acids and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer (VITAL) · Manson JE, Cook NR, Lee IM, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine (2019) PMID:30415637
Effects of n-3 Fatty Acid Supplements in Diabetes Mellitus (ASCEND) · ASCEND Study Collaborative Group; Bowman L, Mafham M, Wallendszus K, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine (2018) PMID:30146932
Effects of aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids on age-related macular degeneration in ASCEND-Eye: a randomised placebo-controlled trial in a population with diabetes (source of the ASCEND capsule composition, 460 mg EPA and 380 mg DHA) · ASCEND-Eye Collaborative Group; Sammons E, Bowman L, Stevens W, et al. · BMJ Open (2025) PMID:40010818
n-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease (DREAM) · Dry Eye Assessment and Management Study Research Group; Asbell PA, Maguire MG, Pistilli M, et al. · New England Journal of Medicine (2018) PMID:29652551
Effect of Long-Term Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acids Supplementation on the Risk of Atrial Fibrillation in Randomized Controlled Trials of Cardiovascular Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis · Gencer B, Djousse L, Al-Ramady OT, Cook NR, Manson JE, Albert CM. · Circulation (2021) PMID:34612056
Listed medicines are rarely assessed for efficacy · McEwen J. · Internal Medicine Journal, online ahead of print (2026) PMID:42464484
Fish oil supplements in New Zealand are highly oxidised and do not meet label content of n-3 PUFA · Albert BB, Derraik JG, Cameron-Smith D, et al. · Scientific Reports (2015) PMID:25604397
Corrigendum: Fish oil supplements in New Zealand are highly oxidised and do not meet label content of n-3 PUFA · Albert BB, Derraik JG, Cameron-Smith D, et al. · Scientific Reports (2016) PMID:27818497
Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Content and Oxidation State of Fish Oil Supplements in New Zealand (industry funded, competing interests declared) · Bannenberg G, Mallon C, Edwards H, et al. · Scientific Reports (2017) PMID:28469193
Assessment of Lipid Quality in Commercial Omega-3 Supplements Sold in the French Market · Pasini F, Gomez-Caravaca AM, Blasco T, Cvejic J, Caboni MF, Verardo V. · Biomolecules (2022) PMID:36291569

Product labels, company statements and regulations, all read on 5 August 2026:

Cost per gram figures are our own arithmetic on the listed prices and the declared per capsule amounts, not figures published by the brand.