Safety of Earthrise
Earthrise Spirulina Meets All Food Safety Guidelines
The safety of spirulina is of great importance to Earthrise. The Earthrise farm is subject to inspections by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the State of California. Its success in exceeding all food safety and quality standards is attributed to the remote farm location, clean air and water, premium quality nutrients, and the total quality management approach to quality control. Earthrise, the world’s largest spirulina producer, has an ISO 9001:2015 Registered Quality Management System. ISO 9001:2015 is the most comprehensive of the standards and covers product design, engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, marketing and sales. The ISO quality standards are presently recognized in over 80 countries across the world.
Approved as Food in Over 20 Countries
Spirulina has a long history of human consumption and is known as a safe, nutritious microalga. In the past 30 years, it has been marketed and consumed as a safe human food and has been approved as a food for human consumption by many governments, health agencies and associations of over 20 countries. Our technicians collect samples from the pond water and the final dry product for about forty different analytical tests. Only after each lot has passed all tests is it certified ready to ship, accompanied by a Certificate of Analysis. Independent labs in the USA and Japan periodically confirm protein, pigments, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, microbiology and heavy metals.
FDA GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe)
Earthrise Nutritionals is the only producer of Spirulina in the continental USA, which has determined its Spirulina as GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) by scientific procedures and FDA review. GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) is a procedure where a company submits a notice to the FDA reporting their determination, through scientific procedures, that their product is GRAS for addition to a variety of foods. A copy Earthrise’s GRAS notice can be found on the FDA’s website at www.fda.gov.
California Proposition 65 Compliant
Our proprietary growing methods and constant testing ensure the highest quality. Every day, farm scientists conduct dozens of rigorous tests to ensure that our quality exceeds all national and international food standards. Earthrise’s California grown spirulina is Prop 65 compliant and exceeds all food safety requirements.
California’s Proposition 65, also called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act, was enacted in 1986. It is intended to help Californians make informed decisions about protecting themselves from chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. As part of the law, the state is required to publish a list of chemicals that are “known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.” The list is updated at least once a year and now contains about 800 different chemicals.
Skin Related Safety Limit Compliant
Thanks to Controlled Cultivation technologies, Our Spirulina is fully compliant with Skin Safety related limit by Regulations in some Asian Countries.
That’s so-called TPP (Total Pheophorbide = Enzymatic reactions to breakdown Chlorophylls causing Itchy on Skin in case of over dosage) and we verify its compliant on every lot.
Moreover, our Patented Technology is proven to be good for your Skin Moisturing thanks to unique ingredient, Phycocyanin, in our product.
(PAT.#6784947).
Algal Toxin Safety Research
Because of concern about toxic blue-algae growing in lakes, Earthrise® developed a program to assure these toxic algae are not present in spirulina ponds. First, daily microscopic examinations of the living culture are conducted. Second, in cooperation with university researchers, farm scientists have developed immunoassay and enzyme inhibition bio-assay methods to detect nano gram levels of toxins. Very few laboratories in the world are capable of such analysis. The safety of spirulina means continuous research and standardized testing.