For those individuals who do not eat an oily fish diet, Carlson offers Omega-3's in easy-to-swallow soft gelatin capsules. Carlson softgels contain 1000 mg (1 gram) of a special concentrate of fish body oils from deep, cold, ocean-water fish which are especially rich in the important Omega-3's EPA and DHA. THIS PRODUCT is regularly tested (using AOAC international protocols) for freshness, potency and purity by an independent, FDA-registered laboratory and has been determined to be fresh, fully potent and free of detectable levels of mercury, cadmium, lead, PCB's and 28 other contaminants.