Shilajit is a rare and very expensive substance in the countries where it is found. It is said that "If Shilajit is cheap, it is not Shilajit". In USA, the market is flooded with cheap Shilajit products in powder, capsule and drops form that may not only be unsafe, but these products may not have enough or any amount of real Shilajit. Powder form of Shilajit may contain heavy metals beyond daily limits and some of these products are banned in Europe and Canada. Resin form of Shilajit isn't exempt from adulteration and tainting. Therefore, it is essential to know what's in your Shilajit. 

We test every batch of our Shilajit at an ISO-17025 certified third-party laboratory in the USA. A sample from each batch goes through identification test, heavy metals test and microbiological contaminants test before the product lands in consumers' hands.

We use California proposition 65 standards for heavy metals as specifications for our test results. These are the strictest and most rigid standards of the naturally occurring heavy metals within USA and across the globe. It should be noted that in virtually every instance, the threshold amounts of these chemicals set by Prop 65 are 1/10th to 1/15th the levels set by international organizations and the US FDA. These amounts are so low that many healthy fruits and vegetables such as yams, turnips, apples, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, green beans, lettuce, spinach, potatoes, corn and many other fruits and vegetables would not pass the Prop 65 guidelines. Since foods are exempted from Prop 65, they do not need to carry a warning label. However once a food or herb leaves its natural state it become subject to Prop 65 for good.

To put things in perspective, the Prop 65 Safe Harbor maximum allowable dose for lead is 0.5µg per day, whereas the FDA daily limits are set at 75µg for adults and 6µg for children. One cup or serving of Green beans contain 28.75µg of lead, which is an exposure of approximately 50 times the allowed Prop 65 levels. Spinach contains approximately 5.2µg of lead in a typical adult serving size which is an exposure that exceeds Prop 65 levels by 10 times.

The latest batch of The Whole Reason™ Shilajit showed 0.0548µg of lead per daily dose of 200mg, which is roughly 100 times lower than one daily serving of spinach.