Ingredient & materials safety

Contaminant tested

This product has been regularly tested for contaminants such as heavy metals or micro-organisms.

Product

What are the requirements for this proof point

To achieve this proof point the product can either have been tested on heavy metals or microorganisms or both.

Heavy Metals

Lead, cadmium, mercury and inorganic arsenic must each be below the threshold for the product’s category from the European Union contaminants regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/915
Each result must be reported with the laboratory’s limit of quantification

Microorganisms

Each result must be at or below the maximum shown in brackets, as set by the Japanese pharmacopoeias’ rules
Where yeasts and moulds are reported separately, the two results are added together and compared with the combined maximum
Find the full table of the microorganism thresholds here: https://knowledge.provenance.org/what-are-the-

Testing

Food supplements
Dried plant, algae and fungi powders sold as food and eaten without cooking, such as baobab, moringa or cacao powder
Herbal teas and infusions, including those sold as food, prepared with boiling water
Products containing live micro-organisms as an active ingredient, such as probiotics, are excluded

Microbiological contaminants- results for test (total aerobic microbial count, total combined yeasts and moulds, and each specified micro-organism)
Heavy metal contaminants- results for test (lead, cadmium, mercury and inorganic arsenic)
Test dates

Evidence should strongly support the claim and will be made publicly available

Product label showing the ingredients and format
Original laboratory-issued test report showing the laboratory name and accreditation number, product name and category, test methods, sample size for each specified micro-organism, results for each count and organism, and test date. Brand-compiled certificates of analysis and summary scorecards are not accepted

Verifiers are third parties who can confirm the validity of a given Proof Point