Is PDS-08® third-party-tested?Updated 3 months ago

Our PDS-08® Pediatric Daily Synbiotic undergoes extensive testing throughout each step of the manufacturing process as well as on the final product. This includes whole-genome sequencing on our strains (translation: we know which strains are present and in which quantities), flow cytometry (flow cytometry measures Active Fluorescent Units—a more accurate way of measuring all viable cells), survivability testing to ensure the optimal conditions for our probiotics to survive transit through the GI tract, heat and humidity testing to mimic the most extreme conditions our product may encounter during shipping and storage, and over 50 quality-assurance and quality-control (QA/QC) checkpoints.

The final product is tested for 420 different pesticides (including glyphosate) and over 20 of the most common allergens as defined by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Our probiotic strains have GRAS and/or QPS status, which designates them as safe for consumption by the United States and European Union, respectively.

We monitor purity under both U.S. and European protocols (including cGMP + HACCP) throughout the production cycle with lot-to-lot testing (this means we test each ingredient batch prior to encapsulation and each batch after manufacture).