Uncompromising Safety Standards
Our Promise
At Cerebelly, everything we do starts with science, innovation, and the trust of families like yours. And while we’re proud of what we’ve built, we know this is only the beginning. We’ll keep raising the bar when it comes to testing our ingredients and developing products you can feel confident about.
Your trust matters most. That’s why we share our heavy metal and contaminant testing results right here on Cerebelly.com — so you always know exactly what’s in your child’s food.
Our goal is clear: get as close to zero as possible and provide the most nourishing foods to help your little one grow and thrive. Thank you for believing in us — we’ll never take that trust lightly.
— Team Cerebelly
What are heavy metals?
To understand how to reduce heavy metals, you must first understand where they come from.
Heavy metals are everywhere, from the water we drink to the organic vegetables we buy. This is because heavy metals are part of our environment. Some heavy metals are naturally found in the earth's crust, and others come from industrial production. Heavy metals are transferred from the earth, to plants, to the creatures who eat those plants and then, well, back to the earth. So, if you’re making products with real ingredients grown from the soil, it’s not a question of whether you’ll have to deal with heavy metals but HOW you’ll deal with them. The question of “how” is one we've attacked relentlessly.
Cerebelly has proudly earned the Purity Award Certification from Clean Label Project, a third-party non-profit with the mission to bring truth and transparency to food and consumer products labeling that tests for harmful levels of heavy metals, chemicals, plastics, pesticides, and more. Clean Label Project standards are inspired by California Proposition 65 and the European Union stringent standard, underscoring their dedication to safeguarding vulnerable populations, particularly infants and young children.
Heavy metals are often measured in percentage of California’s maximum allowable dose level (MADL = maximum allowable daily levels). Experts use this value because unfortunately, there are no federal limits for heavy metals in most foods, and California’s heavy metal standards are the most protective available.
Our Testing Approach
Here's what we do above and beyond industry requirements
Even something as small as an old barn with lead paint can contaminate soil for years. That’s why we carefully choose farms where the soil is safe and clean. On top of that, we strictly follow USDA Organic and non-GMO standards to make sure every ingredient meets the highest quality.
We pull random samples from every batch and send them to an independent third party to confirm our standards are met.
A few of our ingredients are nutritional powerhouses — for example, carrots and sweet potatoes — and since they grow in the ground, they are susceptible to absorbing heavy metals in the soil. For those ingredients, even organic ones, we ask our farmers and purveyors to test their crops and meet strict specifications for low heavy metal content. We don’t stop there; we also send samples from each batch to a third-party certified lab to test for lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic before using them in any Cerebelly flavor. On top of that, we work with independent organizations, including the Clean Label Project, for random testing to keep us accountable.
Cerebelly sits on the Clean Label Project Baby Coalition Group to help advocate for better standards and educate consumers, retailers, and health care providers alike to spur industry change.
Results
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