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The Search for Organic Purity: What it Means to be Clean

As a Health Food Shopper, you want the assurance that your foods are clean, pure, and organic without artificial additives. However, there is a great deal of noise in the marketplace today that makes it difficult to find the clean truth. Independent, unbiased, third-party certification and verification provides your best option for that assurance. Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified seals offer our most credible means of substantiation.

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To attain Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified status, every ingredient must be traced back to its origin, which means tracing back to organic crops and family farms and understanding how and where it’s manufactured. Developing a fully traceable raw material supply chain is a massive, complex undertaking—especially considering some formulas could have over 100 different ingredients.

It’s no easy task, but it’s totally worth it. Garden of Life® is committed to producing Certified USDA Organic and Non-GMO Project Verified supplements. We also use unbiased third parties such as Vegan.org, NSF, Kosher and Informed-Choice whenever possible.

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USDA Organic

Made from Certified USDA Organic Plants grown without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, sewage sludge, genetically modified organisms or ionizing radiation

Non-GMO Verified

Non-GMO Project Verified is an assurance that the product has been produced according to consensus-based best practices for GMO avoidance.

Certified B-Corp

Certified B-Corporations meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, and build a collective voice through the power of the unifying B-Corp brand.

Upcycled Certified

Upcycled Certified™ highlights upcycled ingredients and products procured and produced with surplus food or food by-products from manufacturing, that use verifiable supply chains and have a positive impact on the environment.

NSF Gluten-Free Certified

NSF Gluten-Free Certification ensures that companies have a gluten-free compliance plan and undergo onsite inspections of their production and handling facilities.

Certified Gluten-Free

The Certified Gluten-Free logo represents the independent verification of quality, integrity and purity of products all held to the strictest gluten-free guidelines.

Informed-Choice

The Informed-Choice Lab works with worldwide testing experts and world governments to set the standard for banned substances and ensure a level playing field, at every level.

4ocean

4ocean exists for one reason: to protect and preserve our oceans by removing plastic. Garden of Life has partnered with 4ocean to work together to remove 500,000 pounds of trash from the waterways by 2026!

MSC

MSC certification provides the highest level of assurance that the seafood product is verified to be sustainable/responsible, is harvested legally, and is traceable back to a sustainable source.

Star-K Kosher

Star-K Kosher Certification supervises tens of thousands of food products and food establishments, including restaurants and caterers around the world.

NSF Certified for Sport

The NSF Certified for Sport® mark ensures that products do not contain any of approximately 270+ substances banned by major athletic organizations.

OU Kosher Certified

The Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division is the world’s largest kosher certification agency. As of 2010, it supervised more than 400,000 products in 8,000 plants in 80 different countries.

Kosher UDE

This symbol means the product, while not containing dairy ingredients itself, was made on equipment also used for making dairy products.

Pareve (or Parve) Kosher

The term Pareve, or Parve, refers to “neutral” foods that don’t contain meat or dairy ingredients, or their derivatives. All fruits, grains, vegetables, water and minerals in their natural state are kosher and pareve. Eggs from kosher fowl are pareve, as are fish.

Green-e® Energy Certified

The nation’s leading voluntary certification program for renewable energy. Green-e® Energy stands for verified, certified renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reductions.

LEED Gold Certified

Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a green building certification program that recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices.

Friend of the Sea

Has become the leading certification standard for products and services which respects and protects the marine environment. The certification awards sustainable practices in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Fishmeal and Omega-3 Fish Oil.

Peta Cruelty-Free & Vegan

To be considered “cruelty-free” under PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies program, a company must not only ban animal tests but also refuse to use any animal-derived ingredients.

NSF Contents Certified

NSF Contents Certified is a third-party certification ensuring what is stated on the label is what you are getting in the bottle.

Certified Vegan

Products bearing the Certified Vegan logo must not contain any animal or animal by-products or chemical products tested on animals, keeping them in our world and out of our bodies.

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