Accreditation Requirements
- Accreditation Level Platinum
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Available Test Categories
Core Ingredient Testing - Required
Microbiological Testing - Required
Pesticide Testing - Required
Toxin Testing - Required - Number of Passed Tests Required 4
- Where Accreditation Can Be Used Product Packaging, Website, Other Promotional Materials
- Total Testing Cost £2,400 - 2,854 (ingredient-dependent)
- Annual Subscription Fee £600-5,000 (turnover-dependent)
What is it?
Our platinum level accreditation service provides our second most advanced trust signal – covering the integrity and provenance of the core ingredient, microbiological testing for extra safety assurance, pesticide testing across 518 known pesticides, plus toxin examination across Mycotoxins, Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids, and Dioxins.
Our independent positioning means that consumers see our trust signal and accreditation mark as an impartial, honest, and unbiased signal of product quality. This is a quality that cannot be attained with self-accreditation and/or testing of your own product.
Increase Sales
On average, brands that display our Verified Badge on their product packaging, website, and promotional materials, experience a 7% directly-attributable uplift in sales*
With up to 12% uplift experienced by brands that display our Diamond and Platinum level verification.
*Measured over a 6 month period, across only long-established sales channels (with no extra marketing activity, beyond prior period activity, throughout)
Differentiate Your Brand
There are over 450 ‘major’ supplement brands in the US market alone – and this then becomes tens of thousands of brands when you include smaller, lesser-known brands across the Worldwide marketplace.
Food supplements have never experienced a fiercer competitive climate.
Using our Verifier Lab accreditation can help your product stand-out both online and on-shelf – giving consumers the confidence and trust they need to choose your brand over the countless other options they have available to them.
Open New Sales Channels
The additional trust that our accreditation lends to your brand doesn’t just stop at consumer level.
Proving the authenticity, purity, and integrity of your product through our third-party accreditation immeasurably strengthens any discussion/negotiation with major retail and wholesale buyers. Positioning your brand perfectly for trade sales growth, alongside your D2C channels.
Our Process
The process of submitting your products to us for testing and accreditation follows very much the same flow as any other order placed for testing – the only difference being that you purchase through our ‘Accredited’ product listing.
An Annual subscription fee is charged for use of the Verifier Lab accreditation, and this fee is turnover-dependent. You can find a table of charges for the subscription fee on our Accredited product page.
NOTE: Your subscription charge will not be activated/taken until your product testing is complete and it has passed the testing process to a suitable standard (we use either industry and/or regulatory body-advised benchmark standards for permitted contaminant levels and purity standards).
If your product does not meet these standards and fails the testing process – dependant upon the severity and extent of the failure – you may be invited to submit a different sample from a separate batch for testing at no extra charge.
If your product passes, your subscription payment link will be provided – this will become active upon receipt of payment, and you may start using our verification mark immediately.
You are also expected to submit new batches to us, for testing, annually in order to uphold your subscription/verification mark – and so that you continue to verify that production and raw material standards are upheld continually, across multiple batches. A 50% discount is offered on fees for re-testing purposes, and an invite will be sent to you via email around the renewal date of your annual subscription.