Win-Your-Money-Back Challenge

The proposed offer is limited to the first 50 eligible new Challenge enrollees. Grandfathered Paleo licensees are excluded. Viewing this draft, choosing a track or creating an account does not by itself confirm a Challenge place. Final enrollment terms must define when enrollment counts, how a place is confirmed and when the twelve-month clock starts. This draft does not show a live count of remaining places.

An action without the required evidence remains incomplete. Ask ICS which requirement or evidence is missing. All ten actions must be completed within twelve months to earn the rebate. Final terms must explain evidence corrections, resubmission and missed deadlines. A failing metals result does not by itself decide the rebate; the treatment of mark-related actions for nonqualifying participants remains unresolved with counsel.

The earned rebate covers the full licensing fee paid. It does not cover product purchases, testing, shipping or handling. Only after completing the Challenge do you choose credit toward year two, credit toward a three-year certification option, or cash back. There is no reward selection at enrollment.

TECRID connects a lab result to its sample and source records so the evidence can be checked and shared as an authenticated record. It is the lab-evidence foundation of this ecosystem. The core service is free. An authenticated record is evidence, not a certification, and does not authorize an HMTc mark.

Verified Lot Exchange (VLE) connects ingredient lots with buyers looking for evidence that those lots meet defined requirements. The path is: nominate a lot → freeze its Compliance Profile → sample → TECRID → QUALIFIED → reserve. The Compliance Profile fixes the requirements before sampling. Lab evidence is then checked against that profile. QUALIFIED describes the lot’s status against those requirements; reserving the lot is a separate next step. Neither status certifies a finished product.

Heavy Metal Tested & Certified (HMTc) publishes numeric heavy-metal limits for product categories and runs a finished-product certification program against the applicable standards. A published standard tells you which limits apply. Certification is a separate decision supported by product evidence and ongoing testing. Reading a standard or holding an authenticated lab record does not certify a product.

The Heavy Metal Index (HMI) is the public knowledge resource for research and evidence about heavy metals. It helps brands, retailers and the public inspect the literature behind the standards. Making that evidence accessible gives published standards a common reference point. HMI is a knowledge resource; finished-product certification belongs to HMTc.

A StandardVersion identifies the exact edition of a published standard. “Pinned” means your terms cite that specific edition, so a buyer, supplier or reviewer can tell which requirements apply. It avoids an ambiguous reference to whichever version happens to be on the website later.

The completing lot is the new, independently sampled production lot tested across the full program panel to complete a product’s three-lot baseline. Up to two prior production lots can count when their results meet the program’s evidence requirements. It is not simply any third uploaded report. The baseline rules explain how qualifying prior results and the new full-panel lot fit together.

Qualification means the relevant product or lot evidence meets the applicable requirements. Mark authorization is separate permission to use the HMTc mark for the authorized product and context. Qualification, or a certification decision alone, does not grant that permission. Actions six and seven require qualification and mark authorization. Counsel still needs to resolve the route for nonqualifying participants and action ten’s partial certification gate.