Testing standards
Where the batch check page publishes the result for the lot on sale, this page describes the process that produces it. The two are meant to be read together.
The facility
AlphaErec is produced in the United States in a facility registered with the FDA and operating to current good manufacturing practice. In practice cGMP means documented procedures for everything that touches the product: who handled a batch, at what temperature, on which line, against which written specification, with a record that survives an inspection years later.
Being FDA-registered is not the same as being FDA approved, and the distinction gets abused across this whole category. Registration means the facility is known to the agency and subject to inspection. Approval is something the FDA does for drugs and does not do for dietary supplements at all. Any seller telling you their supplement is FDA approved is telling you something that cannot be true.
What gets tested
Nothing is released on a supplier's paperwork alone. Raw material is re-tested on arrival and the finished lot is tested again before it can be sold.
| Test | What it answers | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | Is this actually the botanical on the purchase order | Chromatographic fingerprint against a reference standard |
| Potency | Are the marker compounds present at the declared level | LC-MS/MS |
| Heavy metals | Lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury below limits | ICP-MS, released below 0.3 ppm |
| Microbiology | No pathogen growth, total counts in range | Plate count against USP <2021> |
| Pesticide residue | No residue above the tolerance for a botanical | Multi-residue screen |
The identity and potency work on the current lot returned 99.0% by LC-MS/MS and was carried out by Chartwell Testing Partners, LLC, an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory that has no commercial interest in the outcome. That independence is the point: a laboratory that also sells you the ingredient is not a check.
Sourcing
Botanicals are agricultural products, which means the same species grown in two places can differ in marker content by a wide margin. We buy against a specification rather than a price: named species, named plant part, declared extraction ratio and a certificate of identity from the supplier that we then verify ourselves.
Where a supplier changes, the new material is qualified before it enters production rather than after. This is slower and it is the reason a production run occasionally waits. We would rather a carton is a fortnight late than released against material we have not confirmed.
One thing this page cannot tell you is how many milligrams of each active end up in a gummy, because the manufacturer does not publish that figure. Testing confirms that what is declared is present and that nothing harmful is; it does not turn an undisclosed amount into a disclosed one. We say the same thing on the formula page and we will keep saying it until the label changes.
Buy from a lot with paperwork
Batch AER.26.0819, certificate CTP.26.4471, tested by an independent laboratory before it shipped.
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