THE RECORD
Every batch leaves a paper trail.
Shilajit is sold on trust, because nobody can check it by eye. Black, heavy, slightly sticky — that describes a clean batch and a filthy one equally well.
So the whole trade runs on being believed. We would rather be checked.
Why nobody bothers.
EU law puts a maximum on three things in a supplement like this: lead, cadmium and mercury. Everything else — arsenic, the microbiology, the moisture that decides whether mould can grow — has no figure attached to it at all. No figure, no test, nothing to fail.
A badge on a website is not a number. Neither is the phrase "lab tested". Both are free.
What goes to the laboratory.
Every batch goes to a laboratory before a single jar is filled.
Riigi Laboriuuringute ja Riskihindamise Keskus — LABRIS, the Estonian state laboratory — Kreutzwaldi 30, Tartu. We do not own it. We have no relationship with it beyond paying for the tests. We do not see the results before they are issued.
Two protocols come back.
Heavy metals. Lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic, by ICP-MS. The resin comes out of rock, and the ground it came from decides these numbers, not us. These determinations sit within the laboratory's accredited scope.
Microbiology. Salmonella, E. coli, total microorganism count, yeasts and moulds. It is harvested by hand and dried in open air, a long way from here, by people we have never met.
Water activity. How much of the water in the resin is actually available to microorganisms. Bacteria need roughly 0.90 to grow. Ordinary moulds need roughly 0.80. A small group of dry-tolerant moulds and yeasts can work down to about 0.61. No law asks anyone for this number — which is convenient for everyone selling shilajit, because it is the number that decides whether a jar is still sound in two years.
Then we publish whatever came back.
How the sample is taken.
One detail decides whether any of the rest means anything. We do not scoop off the top. Small portions are drawn from at least five separate points across the batch, mixed together, then split between the tests. A single scoop describes the scoop. A composite describes the batch.
Batch 2026-001, for example, sent 400 g to Tartu — a fifth of everything we bought. The laboratory would not take less, and we did not argue.
Batches
| Batch | Published | Laboratory | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-001 | 21.09.2026 | LABRIS, Tartu | Read → |
The log
Batch 2026-001 sampled. Composite drawn from five points across the batch; 400 g sent to LABRIS, Tartu.
Chemistry protocol TA2621718-KT issued. Lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, water activity.
Microbiology protocol TA2621717-BT issued. Both protocols published in full.
How to read a certificate.
Four things worth checking — on ours, or on anyone else's.
A result is a number, not a badge. A badge says somebody tested something. A number says what they found. If a brand shows you one and never the other, that is a decision, not an oversight.
A certificate describes one batch. Not a brand, not a product line — one run of material, tested once. If the page has no batch number on it, it does not describe what is in your jar.
"None set" does not mean unregulated. Food still has to be safe. It means no law puts a figure on that particular thing, so most of the trade never measures it.
Accredited means audited. A laboratory holding EN ISO/IEC 17025 has had its methods checked by an outside body, for the specific tests named in its scope. That is not the same as a company describing itself as accredited.