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Yes! Each lot of our products are third party tested for content claims and potential contaminants (like microbial and heavy metals). To ensure product quality and safety, MaryRuth's only uses ISO 17025 Certified labs for our third party testing. The Certificate of Analysis (CoA) must pass our standards to be released for sale. It’s important to us to be able to provide our customers with quality products so you feel comfortable trusting our brand, and confident in your health choices!

We are also excited to mention that we have been working on getting our products certified by the Clean Label Project! The Clean Label project is a non-profit that focuses on bringing awareness to environmental contaminants in consumer products, and certifying products that meet testing requirements. At this time, we have over 100 of our products certified by the Clean Label Project, and we are actively working on adding more to this list. To learn more about the Clean Label Project and what it means, check out our blog article about CLP!

We’re so excited to be working with Clean Label Project, and we are happy to share more about what Clean Label Project is and why we are working on obtaining Clean Label Project certification for our products.

Clean Label Project is a non-profit focused on educating consumers about environmental contaminants in consumer products on the market today, promoting science-based techniques to advocate for cleaner food and consumer products on behalf of the public. Clean Label Project (CLP) is on the frontier of food safety, working to shift the curve from the bare minimum of federal standards to a higher standard of food safety. In addition to this work, CLP certifies products that meet rigorous testing requirements.

Here at MaryRuth’s, we’re voluntarily thinking about food safety differently, and we are proud to say that we are Clean Label Project Brand Certified. At this time, we have 71 individual products certified by the Clean Label Project, and we are actively working on adding more products from our catalog to this list. These products have earned their certification after being tested for hundreds of industrial and environmental contaminants and toxins.

We believe in the mission of CLP, and, considering the realities of societal choices around mining, fracking, and industrial agriculture, we want to do our part to make sure we are making clean and pure products! To learn more about the Clean Label Project and what it means, check out our blog article about CLP!

In order to earn Clean Label Project Certification, Clean Label Project purchases products at retail (or online) and tests them for purity, specifically testing for chemicals of concern, including heavy metals, pesticide residues, and endocrine-disrupting plasticizers.

These test results are not just compliant with federal standards, which should be considered the bare minimum of safety standards, but are compared to high risk chemicals listed on the State of California Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Office’s Proposition 65 list. If the product is found to comply, it qualifies for Clean Label Project Certification. After initial testing for certification, the products undergo random annual testing, to make sure they’re being held to the same standards on an ongoing basis.

At this time, we have over 100 of our products certified by the Clean Label Project, and we are actively working on adding more products from our catalog to this list. These products have earned their certification after being tested for hundreds of industrial and environmental contaminants and toxins.

We hope all this information helps to build a better understanding of Clean Label Project, but to learn more, check out our blog article about CLP!