Is there supposed to be a small opening on the inner seal of the Spring Valley Wild Harvested Acai softgels?
kaidya7 asked:
I purchased Spring Valley natural WIld Harvested Acai softgels from Walmart and the outer seal was in place but there is a small opening in the inner seal. The inner seal does not appeal to have been lifted or tampered with but there is an opening and I’m trying to find out if this is normal.
The hole is like a little half mood opening on the side of the protection seal.
Opps… i meant.. a little half “moon”
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I purchased Spring Valley natural WIld Harvested Acai softgels from Walmart and the outer seal was in place but there is a small opening in the inner seal. The inner seal does not appeal to have been lifted or tampered with but there is an opening and I’m trying to find out if this is normal.
The hole is like a little half mood opening on the side of the protection seal.
Opps… i meant.. a little half “moon”
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August 10th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Does that hole in the inner seal right in the center, kind of like someone put their finger in the middle? Or is it more like the side of the seal (where it looks like the seal pushed up)? Both are fairly common.
The hole in the middle that looks like a finger popped it is more common because the little cardboard/paper thing in the lid has a dab of glue on it that holds the metallic seal on it, then when the machine seals it with the lid on, the seal is in the right place because of the lid. Sometimes the glue doesn’t release properly and when you twist the lid, it pulls at the seal, which rips it. It doesn’t happen a large percent of the time, but often enough that we get questions about it fairly often.
If it looks like the seal was pushed up from the inside, it’s most likely that there was some impact on the bottle where the air pressure created would be enough to pop the seal just a bit.
In either case, as long as the outer seal was in tact, the contents wouldn’t have been tampered with after it left the bottling facility.
[edit]: Yeah, that’s perfectly fine and not unheard of. I’ve had a bottle open up like that, too… the outer seal was totally in tact, so I know it was fine, but it was still weird to see. It’s understandable that you would ask as it is unsettling to see that, but it’s perfectly safe as long as the outer seal was in tact when you bought it.