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ErecPower Testing And Quality: What Each Seal Means

Quick answer

The ErecPower label and sales page carry ten seals and six smaller marks. None of them is FDA approval, because no dietary supplement is FDA approved. This page takes each one in turn and says what it certifies, and then says plainly what this desk does not claim: nobody here has tested this product.

A page of badges with no explanation is decoration. A page of badges with an explanation is a checklist, and two of these come out of it badly.

The seals

Every ErecPower seal, and what it actually certifies

Made in the USA mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
Made in the USAA statement about where the product was manufactured. It is the manufacturer’s own statement and it is not audited by anybody on this website.
FDA-registered facility mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
FDA-registered facilityThe facility has registered with the FDA, which is a legal requirement for a food facility rather than an achievement. It is emphatically not FDA approval, and no supplement is FDA approved.
GMP certified mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
GMP certifiedGood Manufacturing Practice describes how a facility documents and controls its processes. It says nothing about whether a formula works and nothing about the amounts in a capsule.
GMO free mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
GMO freeA statement about the sourcing of the botanical material. For plant extracts it is close to uninformative, because almost no botanical supplement ingredient is genetically modified in the first place.
Natural ingredients mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
Natural ingredients“Natural” has no agreed definition in supplement labelling. It is the weakest mark on this label and it is worth exactly what that sentence suggests.
Vegetarian mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
VegetarianA statement about the capsule shell and the contents. It is useful and checkable, which puts it near the top of this list rather than the bottom.
Gluten free mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
Gluten freeGenuinely useful to a small group of people and irrelevant to everybody else. No threshold is published on the label, so a coeliac reader should ask rather than assume.
Dairy free mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
Dairy freeSame category as the mark above: a real allergen statement, no published threshold, worth a question if it matters to you.
Doctor formulated mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
Doctor formulatedNo clinician is named, no credential is published and no reviewer is identified. It is the manufacturer’s statement about its own process. This website names no clinician either, and says why.
Money back mark used on the ErecPower label and sales page
Money backA purchase term drawn as a badge. It represents the 60-day window on the guarantee page and certifies nothing about the capsule.
The small set

The six smaller ErecPower marks

The manufacturer also ships a set of small monochrome marks. They repeat four of the statements above and add one new one, about the bottle rather than the capsule. They are reproduced here in full so that nothing in the asset pack goes unexplained.

cGMP mark shipped in the ErecPower asset pack
cGMPThe same Good Manufacturing Practice statement as the large roundel, in the small monochrome set the manufacturer also ships.
FDA registered mark shipped in the ErecPower asset pack
FDA registeredThe same facility-registration statement. Registration, not approval.
Non-GMO mark shipped in the ErecPower asset pack
Non-GMOThe same sourcing statement in the small set.
Made in USA mark shipped in the ErecPower asset pack
Made in USAThe same manufacturing-location statement in the small set.
BPA free mark shipped in the ErecPower asset pack
BPA freeA statement about the bottle rather than the contents. Worth having and easy to over-read.
Gluten free mark shipped in the ErecPower asset pack
Gluten freeThe same allergen statement as the large roundel, again with no published threshold.
The important one

ErecPower is not FDA approved, and neither is anything else in this aisle

This is the seal most likely to be misread, so it gets its own section. An FDA-registered facility is a facility that has told the FDA it exists, which food facilities are required to do. It is a registration, not an inspection result, not an endorsement and not an approval.

The FDA does not approve dietary supplements before they go on sale. There is no premarket review of a formula, no approval number, and no agency sign-off for anything on this label. That is how the category is regulated and it applies to every product on the shelf, not just this one. The FDA says so itself, in as many words, and its page on the category is the primary source for what the agency actually does. NCCIH's page on using supplements wisely explains what that means for a buyer, the ODS consumer factsheet covers how to read the panel, and the National Institute on Aging has the version written for people over fifty, which is this desk’s typical buyer.

The practical consequence is that the seals above describe process and sourcing rather than content. None of them tells you how much hawthorn is in a capsule, because nothing tells you that.

Our own limits

What this desk does not claim about ErecPower

We do not claim

  • That anybody here has tested this product. Nobody has.
  • That a certificate of analysis reference is a laboratory report. It is a pointer.
  • That any seal on this label is FDA approval. None is.
  • That the finished capsule has been trialled. It has not.
  • That a named clinician has reviewed these pages. None has, and we will not invent one.

We do claim

  • That the lot is ERE-26/ER-5284 and we will match it to your order by telephone.
  • That every figure on this website came off the label, the artwork or the pack.
  • That every citation was checked against its record before it was written down.
  • That where a figure is not published, this website prints that rather than an estimate.
  • That corrections are made on the page and the review date moves forward.
No invented reviewer

Why no doctor’s name appears on these ErecPower pages

A named medical reviewer is the most abused signal in this category. The name is frequently a stock photograph, the credential unverifiable and the review imaginary, and a reader has no way to tell a real one from an invented one. Which means the signal is worth nothing even when it is honest.

So these pages carry a named editorial desk with a method you can audit instead: the label is the source, undisclosed figures are printed as undisclosed, sources are real and linked in the sentence, and corrections move the review date. That is four claims a sceptical reader can check in ten minutes, which is the only reason to make them. The about page sets the method out in full.

If a clinician with real credentials ever reviews these pages, they will be named, their credential stated, and what they reviewed and when. Until then, nobody.

What would change this

Three things that would make the ErecPower quality section shorter

It is easy to list what is missing. It is more useful to say what would satisfy us, because that is a checkable commitment rather than a complaint.

  • ■A published certificate of analysis for lot ERE-26/ER-5284. Not a reference number: the document, with identity, potency and contaminant testing and a laboratory name on it.
  • ■A Supplement Facts panel with amounts on it. Six numbers would remove the single largest caveat on this entire website.
  • ■A named reviewer with a checkable credential. If a clinician genuinely reviews these pages, they get named here along with what they reviewed and when.

Any of the three would be published here in the week it arrived, with the review date moved forward and every affected page rewritten. None has been supplied so far, and this section stays until one is.

Who writes this

How the ErecPower seals were catalogued

Every mark on this page is one that ships in the manufacturer’s own asset pack or appears on the sales page. Each description says what the mark asserts and who asserts it. Two of them, the natural-ingredients seal and the doctor-formulated roundel, are described as weak, which is a judgement and is labelled as one.

Sources

Sources for the ErecPower quality pages

  1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dietary supplements. https://www.fda.gov/food/dietary-supplements
  2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Questions and answers on dietary supplements. https://www.fda.gov/food/information-consumers-using-dietary-supplements/questions-and-answers-dietary-supplements
  3. National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary supplements: what you need to know. https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WYNTK-Consumer/
  4. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Using dietary supplements wisely. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/using-dietary-supplements-wisely
  5. National Institute on Aging. Dietary supplements for older adults. https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/vitamins-and-supplements/dietary-supplements-older-adults
  6. Federal Trade Commission. Health products compliance guidance. December 2022. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/health-products-compliance-guidance
  7. Tucker J, Fischer T, Upjohn L, et al. Unapproved pharmaceutical ingredients included in dietary supplements associated with US Food and Drug Administration warnings. JAMA Netw Open. 2018;1(6):e183337. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30646238/
  8. MedlinePlus, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Herbs and supplements. https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/natural/699.html
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