Proposition 65, officially the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is a unique California "right-to-know" law. It requires businesses to provide a warning on products sold in California if they contain any of over 900 listed chemicals or naturally occurring elements, even in trace quantities. It's a disclosure law, not a safety ban.

Trace amounts of minerals, such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, and nickel, occur naturally in soil and water everywhere on Earth. This is because when crops absorb water and nutrients through their roots, they naturally absorb trace levels of these earth-borne elements as they grow.
Important facts about trace elements in food:

• Never Added: These trace elements are never artificially added by our growers, our processing partners, or International Harvest. They come from the earth, not our process.
• FDA Recognition: The FDA actively monitors heavy metals in food and recognizes that trace amounts of soil minerals are inevitable in agricultural products and do not pose a public health hazard.

Source matters to us, it always has, since 1991.

• Trusted Sources: We meticulously source from farmers we know, including our own dedicated processing operations, to bring you the highest quality organic products on the market.
• Strict Standards: We follow Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) throughout our supply chain to protect purity and consistency.
• Routine Testing: We continuously evaluate our raw ingredients and finished goods to confirm they meet federal safety regulations.
• Complete Ingredient Transparency: Always organic. Always gluten free. Never GMO.