California Law and the Purity of Herbal Medicines 

We understand your concerns regarding California Proposition 65 warnings, but please know that our products are completely safe. They have been used for generations and have never posed any harm. The small amounts of lead present in virtually all herbal medicines are also found naturally in plants and water all over the world.

Various countries have set their own standards for lead levels in herbal medicines - Japan allows 20 ppm, the World Health Organization allows 10 ppm, Australia and Germany allow 5 ppm, and the US Pharmacopoeia has a limit of 3 ppm for drugs (though none for herbs).

We can assure you that our products meet these internationally recognized standards for purity and potency. 

They test at an average of 1-3 ppm for trace lead and 0 ppm for other trace minerals. This is considered safe and incidental by all international standards for herbal medicine.

However, California's Proposition 65 requires warning at only .5 ppm in food, and in California, herbal medicines are regarded as food.

According to studies, the typical American diet contains 15 – 25 micrograms of lead daily, mainly originating in fruits and vegetables. Other environmental exposures can result in up to 200 micrograms consumed daily. 

Using herbal medicines adds no more than 3-15 micrograms per day.

These numbers should not alarm you, as our bodies likely have less lead now than at anytime in recorded history.  When lead was in gasoline, plumbing, and paint, we absorbed five to ten times as much lead as we do today.

Be assured that our products remain, as always, the purist and most potent herbal medicines you can buy.