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Best Nest Wellness is very concerned by the allegations that our vitamins could somehow be dangerous, because our vitamins continually pass even the Prop 65 levels for lead and other contaminants.
Best Nest Wellness tests all of our multivitamins for contaminants and heavy metals. All of our products are meticulously created, tested multiple times, and held to strict cGMP standards for manufacturing, packaging, and labeling. We source the highest-quality non-GMO ingredients and handcraft each batch under strict standards for purity and freshness in certified facilities in the U.S.A. We have comprehensive third-party testing at both ingredient and finished product levels for product ingredients, purity, microbes, heavy metals, and more. All raw materials and finished products have written specifications that must be met before being released. This includes limits of quantification (LOQs) for heavy metal testing. Very few manufacturers do this much testing, but to us, it is important. What is on the label is what is in the bottle.
Best Nest prenatals are safe for pregnant mothers and their babies. Our prenatal vitamins contain far below even the strictest lead regulations. We want to bring you clarity and also some comfort. We know choosing a prenatal vitamin can be overwhelming and the last thing pregnant mothers need is misleading reports about what’s safe.
Here’s the raw data from our testing facilities:
Best Nest Wellness vitamins have always conformed to FDA standards, and we strive to meet and exceed the highest standards set by other authorities, even when we are not bound by those standards. All our prenatals are produced in compliance with 21 CFR Part 111 and applicable parts of the Food Safety Modernization Act listed in 21 CFR Part 117. The FDA has set a provisional tolerable intake level of 25 µg/day for pregnant or lactating women. The California Prop. 65 standard is 0.5 µg/day. Anything below those limits is considered safe by both the FDA and California. Our prenatal multivitamins contain far below even the strictest lead regulations. We already fall far below the FDA’s 2018 safe lead consumption limit for vitamins.
Anything below those limits is considered safe by both the FDA and California. Now compare those limits to Best Nest’s prenatal multivitamins:
Our prenatal vitamins contain less than 1/50th of the FDA allowable lead content, and less than 1/2 of the much stricter California Prop 65 standard.
Plants naturally contain small amounts of lead.
It’s important to remember that we make our vitamins with plant-based ingredients. Any product with plant materials will contain some lead, because every plant contains lead that it absorbs from the natural minerals in its soil. It is vitally important that pregnant women eat fresh green vegetables as part of their daily diet, which means that they are consuming (based on typical servings) at least some amount of lead.
Lead found in typical servings:
Compare those numbers to our prenatal multivitamins, which contain much less.
There are other kinds of vitamins that have lower lead levels, such as gummy vitamins. But gummies are typically full of gelatin (an animal product), corn starch, and sugar. We take our responsibility to help and nurture pregnant women very seriously, and the benefits of avoiding all those fillers in place of nutritious plant material are, to us, a no brainer. So while our plant-based vitamins do contain miniscule amounts of lead, those amounts are a drop in the bucket compared to the lead naturally contained in healthy foods, and our vitamins have always been safe for pregnant women to consume alongside their diets. We’re creating the most optimal vitamins that we can.
We have a lot of questions and concerns about the “testing” reported in the article by Sinclair Broadcasting.
We make and take our own vitamins.
All of our products are formulated by our founder, a doctor-mom and neurologist. She takes them, and so do her family and friends. We choose every ingredient because we believe it to truly be the best that Best Nest Wellness can find. Each formula is crafted to make sure those ingredients have a purpose and a benefit. We created this brand because we needed it and wanted it for ourselves. We share it because we believe our products will help your families, just like they help ours.
