How can we reassure our clients that our Matol Calcium & Magnesium supplement is mercury-free?
Calcium carbonate is extracted from limestone, a rock containing principally calcium carbonate with varying amounts of alumina, silica, iron, calcium and magnesium carbonates or oxides. Limestone is found on the sea floor. The calcium carbonate is purified from limestone and must comply to the USP (United States Pharmacopea) standards, recognized worldwide. These standards stipulate that in calcium carbonate, heavy metals must be lower than 20 ppm (parts per million) and mercury content lower than 0.5 ppm.