What Approved Means

Ingredients Approved

The exact reviewed formula meets our ingredient criteria, including applicable source and processing requirements. For non-ingestible products, the relevant material criteria apply. This is a positive ingredient or material decision, not a claim that contaminants have been ruled out.

Testing evidence incomplete

We have not completed the evidence review for the stated scope. Useful reports may already be available, but product identity, relevant tests, laboratory details or the basis for using older results may still need review. This does not mean the manufacturer never tests. We explain the actual gap.

Two ticks and the Label And Batch seal

The first tick confirms the reviewed ingredients or materials meet our criteria. The second, Testing provided, confirms review of actual independent laboratory evidence or qualifying exact-product certification. The seal brings those checks together, within the named scope. It does not certify every batch, promise zero contaminants or establish the result for the packet a seller sends you.

We distinguish named-sample or batch reports, a documented ongoing testing programme, and independent product certification. A single report never becomes evidence of routine testing merely because it is linked on a current website.

Existing scoped decisions remain identifiable by their original evidence-review dates and source descriptions. The wording update on 14 September 2026 does not constitute new laboratory work or an upgrade for another product.

A disclosure does not override a failed requirement

Only products with ingredient approval and qualifying third-party evidence appear in the public selection. Products with incomplete evidence remain in reserve. Receiving a document is not enough for a second tick: it must establish the exact independent evidence basis. Disclosure cannot override an ingredient failure or an unresolved review requirement.

Featured choices and reviewed ranges

A featured review is a starting point. Brand pages contain other exact products with both ingredient approval and their own qualifying third-party evidence. Each keeps its testing scope. Products absent from a reviewed range have not automatically been approved or rejected.

What qualifies for the second tick

The second tick means we have reviewed actual third-party evidence for this exact product or documented sample. It is not a promise that every possible contaminant was tested or that every future batch will have the same results.

• An original report issued by an independent laboratory, matched to the named product or sample. A brand may publish or supply it; we label that route because the brand chooses which reports to share.
• An independently controlled laboratory product analysis with matching product identity, source dates and disclosed limits. A lab-hosted analysis is labelled separately from an original certificate.
• An exact-product certification checked with its independent issuer, such as NSF, GFCO or an independent sports register. Its tick covers that programme’s scope only. Gluten certification is not a heavy-metals or pesticide test.
• A brand or supplier testing statement without underlying evidence does not qualify. Neither does an unsupported manufacturer certificate or a facility-only certification.

We show only products with ingredient approval and qualifying third-party evidence in the public selection. Incomplete products stay in reserve. Report dates, analysis dates, certification checks and our review dates are labelled separately. ND means not detected at the stated limit, not zero.