What we tested for, and what most supplement brands don't
The supplement industry has a credibility problem.
The FDA only audits about 1% of supplement facilities each year. The category isn’t pre-approved. Anyone can put a product on a shelf with a label that says it contains a clinical dose of zinc and vitamin D, and walk away. By the time the FDA catches up, the bottle is in your medicine cabinet.
The way you fix that, and the way every supplement brand worth trusting fixes it, is by sending your product to an independent lab and publishing what comes back. Not the parts that make you look good. Everything.
So that’s what we did. We sent Total Men’s Package, lot 2025196, to Eurofins, the largest food, supplement, and pharmaceutical testing network in the world, with USDA, FDA, and ISO 17025 accreditation. We asked them to run the full panel: heavy metals, microbials, pathogens, banned-substance adulterants, ingredient identity, and label-claim verification. Twelve pages of results.
Read the full report on our Lab Results page.
Verifying what's on the label
This is the most basic claim a supplement makes, that what’s on the label is what’s in the bottle. And it’s the claim that gets violated most often. A 2017 NIH analysis of multivitamin products found that more than a third had measurable variance from their label claims on at least one ingredient.
Eurofins measured every active in our formula. Each value below is per 7-capsule serving:
- Vitamin D3: 77.2 mcg measured (label claim ≥ 45 mcg), PASS
- Vitamin K2-MK7: 100 mcg (claim ≥ 90 mcg), PASS
- Vitamin K1: 417 mcg (claim ≥ 360 mcg), PASS
- Boron: 10.9 mg (claim ≥ 9 mg), PASS
- Copper: 0.908 mg (claim ≥ 0.9 mg), PASS
- Zinc: 14.8 mg (claim ≥ 13.5 mg), PASS
- Magnesium: 198 mg (claim ≥ 180 mg), PASS
The methods used: ICP Emission Spectrometry per AOAC 984.27, 985.01, 2011.14. Vitamins by HPLC fast method.
Heavy metals
Almost any supplement that contains plant-derived ingredients can pick up trace heavy metals from the soil. The question isn’t are they there, it’s how far below the safety limit.
USP Chapter <2232> sets daily intake limits for the four heavy metals of greatest concern. The percentages below show what fraction of those limits a single serving of Total Men’s Package represents:
- Arsenic: 5.85% of limit
- Lead: 5.64% of limit
- Chromium: 8.05% of limit
- Cadmium: < 0.69% of limit
- Mercury: < 1.41% of limit
For context: Consumer Reports has tested protein powders that exceeded heavy metal limits. We’re an order of magnitude below them.
Pathogens, the recall risk
The single biggest cause of supplement recalls in the U.S. is microbial contamination. Eurofins ran the full USP pathogen panel:
- E. coli: Absent in 10 g
- Salmonella: Absent in 10 g
- Staphylococcus aureus: Absent in 10 g
- Yeast and mold: < 100 CFU/g (limit is 100,000)
- Aerobic plate count: < 100 CFU/g (limit is 10,000,000)
The adulterant panel, the one that catches the bad actors
This is the test that almost no consumer-facing supplement brand voluntarily runs. Within the men’s health and testosterone-support category, there’s a long, documented history of brands spiking products with banned compounds, SARMs, designer steroids, prohormones, that produce real but unsafe effects, especially over time.
Eurofins ran the same 22-compound adulterant panel that competitive athletes are tested for: Ostarine, Ligandrol, RAD140, Stanozolol, Methasterone (Superdrol), GW1516, Ibutamoren, Methyl-1-testosterone, Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, and a dozen others. Every single one came back “Not Detected”.
If you take supplements and care about anti-doping compliance, or just don’t want surprise endocrine effects, this is the panel to look for.
What this means
The product on the label is the product in the bottle. The doses are clinically meaningful. The pathogens are absent. The heavy metals are nowhere near the limit. There are no banned compounds spiked into the formulation.
That sounds like the bare minimum. It is. It’s also the bar that most of the men’s supplement category fails to clear.
We’ll send every batch we make to Eurofins. Each one gets its own page on the site. The certificate is downloadable. Click through, scroll the PDF, send it to your doctor.
This is the level of evidence we hold ourselves to. It’s the bar we want the men’s supplement category to meet. If it raises the bar elsewhere, even better.
