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Supplement Testing in India: COA, Heavy Metals and Batch Checks

Short answer: a trustworthy supplement lets you verify who made it, what is in it, and which tests were run on the batch you are holding. In India that means a 14 digit FSSAI licence you can look up, every ingredient named on its own line, and a certificate of analysis (COA) tied to the batch code on the pack, covering at least heavy metals and microbial limits. A logo or the phrase “lab tested” is not enough.

Last updated: October 2026.

The minimum checks

  1. Verify the FSSAI licence on FoSCoS and match the business name and address to the pack.
  2. Read every ingredient; treat a proprietary blend as missing information.
  3. Ask for a batch-specific certificate of analysis, not a generic example from a different lot.
  4. Check the tested items and methods, including heavy metal and microbial limits.
  5. Check allergen, medicine and pregnancy cautions, and use a qualified clinician for personal advice.

“Lab tested” is not the same as batch tested

“Lab tested” can mean one sample, once, years ago, or a test the raw material supplier ran rather than the brand. Batch testing means every production lot is tested before it is released, and the report carries the same code that is printed on your pouch. Only the second tells you about the product in your hand.

What a certificate of analysis should show

  • The product name and the batch or lot number, matching your pack.
  • The laboratory's name and accreditation, such as NABL in India.
  • Each test, the method used, the result and the limit it had to meet.
  • A date and a signature.

A COA without a batch number, or with results but no limits, is not much use. How to read a COA walks through one.

Which tests matter most for powders

For greens powders, heavy metals come first: grasses, algae and leaves take up lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury from soil and water. Microbial limits come next, because dried plant material can carry bacteria, yeast and mould. Identity testing confirms each ingredient is what the label says it is. Heavy metals in greens powders covers the limits.

Read the cluster

  1. Heavy metals in greens powders
  2. How to read a Certificate of Analysis
  3. How to verify an FSSAI licence
  4. What a proprietary blend hides
  5. Clinically studied ingredient vs product
  6. Fillers and flow agents
  7. Spirulina powder and heavy metal risk

The SWATVA standard

Use the ingredient ledger, open-books policy and product standard together. When the founding batch opens, the relevant product pages are Daily Greens and Signal.

Check your label

What to check before
you buy any supplement.

A peer-reviewed study of thirty-six protein supplements sold in India found sixty-nine per cent mislabelled and fourteen per cent carrying fungal toxins. A third-party test only tells you something if it covers the batch in your hand.

Try DG-0001-A to see what the first batch will be tested for.

Quality and testing

What we test,
and what we do not.

01

Every batch

Ingredient identity, heavy metals and microbial limits, at an NABL-accredited laboratory, before the batch is released.

02

Batch code linked

Reports are published against the batch code printed on your pouch, so you check yours and not an average.

03

Standardised, and the figure is printed

Ashwagandha at 5% withanolides, turmeric at 95% curcuminoids and amla at 40% tannins. Final batch documentation will publish the corresponding records.

04

What we do not claim

We have run no clinical trial on the finished blends. The research on this page is on ingredients, not on our product.

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