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Heavy Metal Certified

Specimen brand

Certified brand

Three products certified against two published subcategory standards, tested at an accredited laboratory on the full ten-analyte panel and re-tested every lot since. Every certificate below names the standard, the panel, the basis and the period it covers.

Page snapshot
Certified products3
Standards held2
Certified since2026-05
Lots on record14
Specimen brand page · noindex

No brands are certified yet. This shows the shape of the public page a brand receives on issue — what the program controls and what the brand controls. Every value below is illustrative.

Certified products
Three products · two standards
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Stage 1 · 0–6 months
Infant Formula, Powder

Cow-milk based, non-soy. Certified against Part 3.1 in powder as placed on market, with the prepared-for-feeding equivalent shown on the standard.

Compliant Part 3.1
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Stage 2 · 6–12 months
Follow-on Formula, Powder

The same subcategory standard and the same ten-analyte panel. A separate certificate because it is a separate product, not a variant of the one above.

Compliant Part 3.1
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First foods
Oat Baby Cereal, Dry

Certified against the non-rice cereal standard, in dry as sold. A second standard because it is a different subcategory with a different pathway.

Compliant Part 3.6
10
Analytes per lot
Eight priority metals plus speciated arsenic and mercury.
14
Lots tested to date
Every production lot since certification, not a sample.
14
Consecutive conformant lots
No withdrawal, no gap in the record.
2
Standards held
Part 3.1 and Part 3.6, each in its own native basis.

The certification record

One certificate per product per standard. A product sold in two forms holds two certificates, because the standard and the basis differ by form.

ProductStandardBasisStatusValid through
Stage 1 Infant Formula, PowderPart 3.1 — powder, non-soypowder as placed on marketCompliant2027-05-18
Stage 2 Follow-on Formula, PowderPart 3.1 — powder, non-soypowder as placed on marketCompliant2027-05-18
Oat Baby Cereal, DryPart 3.6 — dry, non-ricedry as soldCompliant2027-01-30

Specimen rows. Status B is a transitional variance on a Tier 2 metal, disclosed rather than hidden — a real certification state with a defined end date, not a failure.

Each product above was tested at or below every value in the standard named beside it, in that product’s native basis, on the ten-analyte panel, by an accredited laboratory. The mark does not certify that a product is safe and does not extend to products not listed. Full scope of the mark →

Press and retailer kit

Everything a buyer’s compliance review or a reporter’s fact-check needs, without an email to either party.

Artwork
Mark artwork, red
Scalable SVG for print and screen.
Artwork
Mark artwork, reversed
White on burgundy, for dark grounds.
Reference
Scope statement
The verbatim line that must accompany the mark.
Reference
The standards behind the mark
Part 3.1 and Part 3.6, with full derivations.
Document · issued per certificate
Certificate of conformity
Signed PDF naming standard, panel and basis.
Data · issued per certificate
Machine-readable record
JSON manifest of certificates and periods.
Approved boilerplate — copy verbatim

<Brand name> holds Heavy Metal Tested & Certified status for three products under the HMTc Infant and Child Foods Standard, 2026 Edition. Each is tested at an accredited laboratory on a ten-analyte panel, in the product’s native basis, against limits published in advance by the program. Certification attests to measurement against a stated threshold; it is not a determination of safety.

Reproduce this paragraph as written. Edits that drop the final sentence convert a conformity statement into a safety claim, which breaches mark usage under Part 2.5 and is the most common way a certified brand loses the right to display the mark.

About the brand

Brand photograph
Brand-supplied copy

This section is written by the brand and is the only part of the page it controls. It is visually distinguished from the certification record above so a reader can tell marketing from conformity — which protects the brand as much as the reader, since a claim made here can never be mistaken for one the program made.