Read the testimonial below by Pharmacist Clell Fowles:

'Even though Nature’s Sunshine use organically sourced ingredients it is impossible to label the products with an organic certification because most of our products contain organic wildcrafted ingredients.

Allow me to explain…
Organic is a term utilised to describe a growing condition. To be certified organic you (as a grower) have to pay to have someone come out and inspect your farm and look at your records to make sure you are not using any banned fertilizers, pesticides, etc. Whilst we regularly buy ingredients from certified organic farms, many of the raw ingredients Nature’s Sunshine use are ‘wildcrafted’ which means they are not grown on farms but picked in areas where they grow naturally in organic conditions.

Nature’s Sunshine test all their raw ingredients whether they are from organic farms or collected from the wild to make sure that they pass our specifications, which includes not having any presence of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
If they contain any of these artificial chemicals then they will not pass our quality control tests. Many people refer to Nature’s Sunshine products as ‘Organic Plus’ because we do not take the farmers word that the ingredients are organically produced, we actually prove their organic status in our laboratories. Interestingly, to emphasis the importance of quality control, I would like to mention that we have had many batches of certified organic material come in that has not passed our specifications because it was too dirty and grew bacteria etc. So not only do we source our ingredients from organic sources, we also test to prove their purity and efficacy.’