The seal
What Mycelia Verified requires
The seal means a specific product from a specific lot was bought blind, tested by an accredited lab, and met every requirement below. It is deliberately hard to keep.
Every requirement, in full
- The product was bought anonymously at retail. Submitted samples never qualify.
- Measured content falls inside the tolerance we publish against the labelled dose, in both directions.
- Units from the same lot cluster tightly enough to meet our consistency requirement.
- Contaminant screening comes back clean against the relevant safety limits, with no exceptions and no partial credit.
- The species and formulation match what the packaging claims.
- The brand publishes lot identifiers so a customer can tell which batch they are holding.
- The brand agrees that the full result stays public, including any later failure.
What the seal does not mean
It is not a health claim, an efficacy claim, or a statement that a product is safe for you specifically. It means the contents matched the label and the product was clean, for that lot, on that date. Everything else is still your judgement to make.
The seal expires. Manufacturing drifts, suppliers change, and a result from eighteen months ago tells you very little about what is in the jar today. A seal that never expired would become decoration.
How a seal gets withdrawn
- A later lot fails.
- The brand changes the formulation without a retest.
- The brand uses the seal on a product or lot it was never issued for.
- The brand misrepresents what the seal means in its marketing.
Withdrawals are published like everything else, with the reason attached. A seal you can lose quietly is not worth having.
No seals have been issued yet. Samples are with the labs and the first results will be published here as they return.