Proposition 65 (“Prop 65”) is a California law formally known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. Prop 65 is a unique California only “right to know” law that requires products sold in California or online to California customers to bear warning notices about potential exposure to any of the over 1,000 substances listed by the state as causing cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. The list includes synthetic and naturally occurring chemicals that are found in common household products including food, drugs, and other products. Products containing lead, cadmium, or other listed substances, even in very small amounts, must have a California Proposition 65 warning.

 

If your shipping address is in California you must agree that you understand and consent to the following which applies to every product we ship to California:

California Proposition 65 WARNING - Cancer and Reproductive Harm - www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/food 
California Proposition 65 WARNING - Consuming this product can expose you to chemicals, including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

 

For further information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/food

For additional information about California Proposition 65 see http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65.html

Prop 65 warnings may be required for any product that exposes an individual in California to any chemical listed under the law. This is not just about food but includes any item that has the possibility of having any of these "chemicals". This includes electrical wires, jewelry, padlocks, schools, dishes, flashlights, coffee shops, clothing, cars, restaurants, TV’s, furniture, alcohol, diesel engines, amusement parks, parking lots, hardware stores, gas stations, hospitals, and just about any decent-sized business. Even testosterone and estrogen which are naturally produced by your body are listed in Prop 65.

Prop 65 does not ban any products from sale in California; it simply requires warning labels or signage whenever exposure could cause more than “one excess case of cancer in 100,000 individuals exposed to the chemical over a 70-year lifetime.” That allows anybody to bring a case by finding a listed chemical in a product even if it is present in an amount 1,000 times below the “no observable effect” level. A company can prove the level is meaninglessly low, but that is quite costly to do in court. Most companies end up settling with the plaintiff (even when they are not liable) to avoid the expense of litigation and then add the warning labels to everything.

Lawsuits to enforce Prop 65 against manufacturers may be instituted by the State of California, or much more frequently by private “bounty hunters” and their attorneys who profit from the law. Recently, the dietary supplement industry has been subject to aggressive enforcement by private Proposition 65 bounty hunters over the alleged lead and other heavy metals contained in various supplement products. Lead is a naturally occurring element that is found throughout the entire environment, including in soils where it can be taken up by natural plants and herbs. Many plants, plant extracts, and minerals used in dietary supplement products contain some level of lead, a chemical listed under Proposition 65. Detectable lead can also be found in a variety of food products that are generally considered part of a healthy diet, including fruit juice, seaweed, ginger, and chocolate, all of which have also been the subject of Proposition 65 enforcement.

Detectable lead can be found in almost every food you have eaten in your entire life including carefully selected and sourced superfoods. None of these elements are added by SirtfoodStore.com or Blew FamilyOrganics.com, which follows good manufacturing practices to minimize or eliminate any contamination.

Under federal laws, the federal government cannot take action to limit the use of a chemical unless it has been proven unsafe. So a chemical is generally considered safe unless there is scientific evidence to the contrary. But under California Prop 65, the presumption of culpability is flipped so a company must prove its product is safe and free of all 800 chemicals.

The reason you now see this label on our foods is that, after many years and many lawsuits, the group of attorneys, who had much to do with putting this law into play, are running out of companies in California to sue. They are now pursuing and trying to extract money out of any company that ships its products to California. In the near future, you will begin noticing these warnings on almost everything from every company in the state of California.

Here is what makes this absurd. The FDA, USDA, European Union, and World Health Organization do not agree with this law and found no scientific merit to back it up. Everything we eat contains tiny amounts of heavy metals (defined as chemicals under Prop 65) due to the fact that this is simply the state of our natural environment. The FDA has set guidelines on what is considered safe for many of these items in question and we laboratory test every batch of every product we receive to ensure it not only meets but exceeds these federal requirements.

This law was originally created by the state of California to protect the consumer but now some unscrupulous lawyers are taking advantage for their personal profit rather than a true concern to safeguard the consumer. In 2008 the average settlement was $123,000 and for those companies that try to defend themselves in court, the costs are even higher. The vast majority of these settlement costs end up in the pockets of the attorneys, who brought the case, as legal fees. For this reason, we have been forced to put the warning labels on any product we ship to the state of California even if the naturally occurring levels of heavy metals are well below Prop 65 levels.

In conclusion, we at SirtfoodStore.com and Blew FamilyOrganics.com understand that due to the state of our environment, you the consumer, need to be proactive in order to have vibrant health. Most importantly we need to focus on how the body responds to external stressors, especially the ones we have no control over. In order to support the body's ability to have a healthy stress response the following guidelines will be very helpful:

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• The daily use of adaptogen and tonic herbs and foods

• Nourishing our bodies with real whole foods in order to give us the tools to function at optimal levels

• Nourishing our detoxification pathways in order to keep them working at optimal levels

• Practice healthy relaxing activities like yoga, meditation, talk therapy, music, light & dance therapy

• Maintain adequate hydration status which assists the detoxification processes

• Finally, through the consumption of quality food-based protein and daily forms of strength training to keep as much lean muscle tissue on our body as possible
   

• Remember toxins store up in fat tissue so the less we have the better.
  
  I hope this information helps settle any concerns you may have about Prop 65 and these warning labels.
  
  To learn more about California Prop 65 please visit these sites:
  
  http://www.WhyThisWarning.com
  http://prop65scam.com/
  http://www.theiplawblog.com/2014/01/articles/legal-info/proposition-65-twenty-seven-years-later-and-still-no-observable-effect/
  https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18026
  https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0971/6576/files/prop65_explained_jan2016.pdf?12587164411280906725
  https://www.nowfoods.com/now/nowledge/california-residents-proposition-65-warning-faqs
  
  The list of companies and products cited for non-compliance to Prop 65 is long and growing. Below are a few examples of companies in the nutritional supplement industry that have been pursued because of Prop 65 violations from unscrupulous lawyers driven by profit rather than public health:
  
  4Life Research
  Absolute Nutrition
  Advanced Nutrient Science
  Advanced Physicians Formula (NHK Laboratories)
  Advocare International
  AIM International
  AL Global Corporation
  Alfa Vitamins Lab
  ALL ONE Nutritech
  Aloe Vera of America
  Amazon Herb Company
  American BodyBuilding Products
  Arbonne International (Arbonne Essentials)
  Arise & Shine Herbal Products
  Aspen Group
  AST Sport Science
  ATF Fitness Products
  Atrium Inc.
  Ayush Herbs
  Baseline Nutritionals
  Beauty & Health International
  Betty Lou’s
  Bio-International
  Biotics Research Corporation
  Bristol Farms Pure Synergy
  Bronson Nutritionals
  Ceautamed Worldwide
  Cell-Nique Corporation
  CGNP Manufacturing
  Champion Nutrition
  Chi’s Enterprise
  Continental Vitamin Company
  Creations Garden Natural Products
  DEVA Nutrition
  DNS Nutrition
  Dr. Health
  Dr. Mercola
  Dr. Schulze’s American Botanical Pharmacy
  EarthLab (Wise Woman Herbals)
  Erom
  Forever Living
  Forevergreen
  FreeLife International
  Full Green Circle
  Futurebiotics
  Garden of Life
  General Nutrition Centers
  Genesis Pure
  Genesis Today
  Genisoy Food Company
  GHC ND Operations
  Ginco International
  Global Healing Center
  Golden Flower Chinese Herbs
  Golden Neo-Life Diamite International
  Good Life International
  Great American Products
  Greens World
  Health Body Services
  Health Plus
  Healthy Body Services
  Healthy Directions
  Healthy Healing
  Healthy Natural Systems International
  Heritage Health Products Company
  ICA Health (Dr. Wilson’s Original Formulations)
  ICC Industries
  Inner Health Group
  Institute for Vibrant Living
  Integrated Sports Science
  Integrity Health Group
  ISI Brands
  It Works Global
  Jarrow Formulas
  Kan Herb Company
  Konsyl Pharmaceuticals
  Kraft Foods
  Labrada Nutrition
  Life Extension (XtendOLife)
  Life Force International
  Living Intentions
  LuckyVitamin Corporation
  MacroLife Naturals
  Max Muscle Sports Nutrition
  MET-Rx Engineered Nutrition
  Metagenics
  Mountain Rose Herbs
  MRI
  MRM
  Myogenix
  Natrol
  Natura Health Products
  Naturade Operating Corporation
  Natural Organics
  Nature’s Answer (Greens Today, Tru Cleanse, etc.)
  Nature’s Best
  Nature’s Bounty
  Nature’s Herb Company
  Nature’s Plus
  Nature’s Sunshine Products
  Nature’s Way Products
  Naturemed
  Navitas Naturals
  New England Greens
  Nu Skin Enterprises
  NuCare International
  Nutraceutical Corporation
  Nutri-Well International
  Nutri-West
  NutriBiotic
  Nutricologiy
  Optimum Nutrition
  Organic By Nature
  Organic India USA
  Ortho Molecular Products
  Promax Nutrition Corporation
  ProSource
  Pure Planet Products
  Quick Trim
  R-U-VED
  Raw Indulgence
  ReNew Life Formulas
  Rexal Sundown
  Robbins Research International
  Self Health Resource Center (Dr. Clark Store)
  Seychelles Organics
  Sonne’s Organic Foods
  Sunfood Superfoods
  Sunrider International
  Sunsweet Growers
  Sunwarrior
  Supreme Protein
  Symmetry Corporation
  Tao of Wellness
  The Clean Program Corp.
  The Synergy Company
  Trace Minerals Research
  TRC Nutritional Laboratories
  TriVita
  Ultimate Nutrition
  United Herbal Sciences
  United States Nutrition
  Vega (Sequel Naturals)
  Vibrant Health
  Visual Sciences
  Vital Pharmaceuticals
  Vitamin Power
  Vitamin Research Products
  Vitamin Shoppe
  VitaTech International
  Vitonomy
  Wellness Watchers Global
  WellNX Life Sciences
  Western Botanicals
  Wholistic Botanicals
  Windmill Health Products
  World Health Products
  Yerba Prima
  
  A Few Distributors:
  Amazon.com
  Drugstore.com
  Pureformulas.com
  Supplementwarehouse.com
  DPS Nutrition
  iHerb
  GNC
  Swanson Health Products
  Vitacost.com

   

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