What does NSF Certified Mean
NSF International is known as a global leader in public health standards and product testing, auditing, and certification. NSF helps to ensure the highest level of facility management and product quality for the nutritional products, cosmetics, personal care and OTC industries. The NSF mark can give industry professionals and consumers peace of mind knowing extra precautions were taken to ensure the quality and safety of the certified facilities and products.
What is NSF Contents Certified
Product and ingredient certification ensures an extra layer of quality for dietary supplements, functional foods, cosmetics and personal care products through comprehensive testing and detailed facility audits.
NSF evaluates the composition of dietary supplements and ingredients. The assessment includes testing for vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, amino acids, sports supplements, concentrates, metabolites, constituents and extracts to verify the supplement facts panel reflects the product’s contents or that the certificate of analysis for the ingredient accurately depicts its identity and purity specifications.
Unique to their certification program, annual audits are conducted and periodically, certified products are retested to ensure continued compliance.
Why NSF Contents Certified is Important to Garden of Life
Garden of Life’s mission is Empowering Extraordinary Health® and our passion to live up to this mission means going the extra mile. It’s not easy to achieve third-party certifications or to keep those qualifications intact. You, as a consumer, need to have the assurance that what you see on the label, is what you are putting into your body. Seeing the NSF Contents Certified logo means exactly that.