How much of the elemi oil being sold is fake or adulterated? Does anyone know?

Maybe a better question is which vendors are known to sell fake or adulterated oils?

Is there a respected place that has this sort of information available that we can talk about?

A lot of documents on essential oils bring up the problem of fake or adulterated oils being an ongoing issue. Some very well known vendors have even been caught selling fake oils. The problem is that for the average person, it’s hard to know if their oil is 100% real authentic oil. I don’t think I could tell if elemi oil was fake or not just by smelling it. There are so many artificial scents available that if one is good at synthesizing scents in a lab, they could probably produce completely synthetic “elemi oil” that has no elemicin at all, and sell it as “100% pure” and get away with it.

As far as I know there is no regulation of essential oils and the FDA doesn’t check these oils. So if a company was found selling 100% fake oils, there’s nothing you can do about it because it’s not FDA regulated. Besides, they would claim they purchased the oil from a reseller overseas and they didn’t know it was fake. It’s a believable story.

This pretty much sucks. Not knowing if your oil is actually the real deal or not is a big problem. Is there a place that tests oils for you that doesn’t sell oils, so they have no vested interest in giving you false results? Does anyone know?