SILVER 100™ SAFETY FACTS

At the bottom of this page is a link for viewing the Silver 100™ Safety Report. It contains details on safe levels of silver including details on the government's guidelines for safe concentrations of silver in drinking water and safe levels of total daily consumption of silver.

Silver 100™ is entirely safe

As with anything, extreme excess can be harmful. Short of that, silver is entirely safe, and when using Silver 100™ in accordance with the directions it's as safe as eating and drinking food and water. Silver is well known to be nontoxic to the body when extremes are avoided. In fact, that Environmental Protection Agency allows responsible levels of silver in our drinking water and considers those levels to be entirely safe.

The main concern from excess silver consumption is a harmless but nonetheless undesirable skin discoloration called argyria. This condition is essentially impossible from using Silver 100™ according to label directions. It would take far, far more silver for argyria to be possible. The few cases of argyria that exist are the result of very irresponsible practices. The level of over-consumption that was necessary was so excessive that comparable over-consumption of many commonly used products could have had severe health consequences—not just cosmetically unappealing but seriously damaging to health. Out of perhaps millions of users of silver for health purposes, there have been only a handful of reports of argyria in modern times. In all cases, the quantities of silver consumed had to be so extreme that responsible use of silver products couldn't even equal a faction of those levels. Short of that, silver is entirely safe, entirely natural, and entirely harmless to the body.

There has never been a single report of argyria from using Silver 100™! (This is after six years of sales!)

Silver is a natural mineral that's present in most of our food and even more so in our drinking water—especially in water (unless it's purified water from which the minerals have been removed). The fact that the silver in Silver 100™ is complexed with citrate has no bearing at all on whether it can contribute towards argyria. "Silver is silver" in that respect—the only issue that matters in avoiding argyria is staying within safe limits of total silver intake. Indeed, the fact that Silver 100™ consists of silver that is complexed with citrate means that the greatly superior efficiency of the product allows you to use much less while getting great results, consuming only the minimal amount of silver necessary to obtain the maximum benefits.

The suggested usage for Silver 100™ is measured based on body weight. (This is done in order to maximize both safety and economy.) Because of the efficiency with which Silver 100™ performs, in addition to the 100-ppm silver concentration, only tiny amounts are required, as indicated on the label. Silver 100™ is entirely safe!

In observing what we believe are very safe suggested usage limits, we have adopted what we call the 25% rule, which says that if we keep the usage level below 25% of the EPA's recommended daily limit of silver, that should always be very safe.

Compares in safety to about a liter of ordinary drinking water

The maximum recommended regular daily amount of Silver 100™ contains less silver than may exist in a liter or two of ordinary drinking water! This is based on the EPA's guidelines for safe levels of silver in drinking water.

For a 120-pound person, the maximum recommended regular daily amount of Silver 100™ contains less silver than may exist in 0.6 of a liter of ordinary drinking water.

For a 180-pound person, the maximum recommended regular daily amount of Silver 100™ contains less silver than may exist in 0.9 of a liter of ordinary drinking water.

For a 240-pound person, the maximum recommended regular daily amount of Silver 100™ contains less silver than may exist in 1.2 liters of ordinary drinking water.

(Note: A liter is equal to about a quart, or 4.2 cups, or 33.8 ounces.)

You get the idea. The amount of silver is comparable to what may exist in our daily intake of drinking water, if that. The bottom line is that it's obviously not even remotely enough to ever be concerned about. The difference, of course, is that with Silver 100™ the silver is complexed with citrate in a way that is carefully designed to deliver the silver to the system as ions.

Another way of looking at the safety of Silver 100™ is by observing that the maximum recommended regular daily amount is always considerably less than 25% of the EPA's recommended safe limit for daily consumption of silver.

Silver 100™ Safety Report

Before clicking on the link at the bottom of the page for viewing the Silver 100 Safety Report, please consider the following comments.

The Silver 100™ Safety Report represents what is undoubtedly the most extensive effort that has ever been made to date in the field of silver-containing dietary supplements to establish and demonstrate absolute safety in using the product. It was originally prepared in 1999 by Invision International for in-house purposes only. Unlike some companies that focus more on promotion than on quality, performance, safety, and on presenting accurate, reliable information, we have always focused on maintaining the highest degree of integrity—and on knowing the facts so we can do so. The Silver 100™ Safety Report was prepared as an in-house document in order to unequivocally demonstrate the safety of Silver 100™. Because questions regarding the safety of certain silver products have been raised lately, we are making the Silver 100™ Safety Report public. It was always available to anyone who asked for safety details but we never felt the need to disseminate it widely until recently. Our integrity has never been in question, and neither has the safety of Silver 100™. However, the average layperson can easily be confused when irresponsible assertions are made by others without citing any facts or figures. The Silver 100™ Safety Report clears up any possible questions regarding the safety of Silver 100™. It also illustrates the extent to which Invision International has always gone in order to ensure absolute, unequivocal customer safety as our top priority.

Pertinent statistics

We'd like to point out that while the EPA assumes that the average person will consume about a liter of drinking water per 77 pounds of body weight per day and establishes safety guidelines for silver concentration in water based on that assumption, many people obviously drink much more water than that per day. Since you don't see people regularly developing argyria, it may be reasonable to conclude that the EPA's safety guidelines for silver content in drinking water and for total silver consumption as indicated by the RfD represent extremely conservative levels of daily silver intake. However, most drinking water contains less silver than the EPA's recommended limit for silver concentration. This can be viewed to mean that there is even more room for silver from other sources such as Silver 100™ than indicated in the Silver 100™ Safety Report. How much silver can be safely obtained from other sources besides food and water while still staying below safe intake levels depends on how much silver is in the food intake and, moreover, how much silver is in the water intake—the latter being a function of the silver concentration in the water and the total quantity of water consumed.

Because plenty of people drink far more drinking water than one liter per 77 pounds of body weight per day, it is not valid to assume that using Silver 100™ will always keep someone below the EPA's recommended daily limit of silver intake, yet it IS valid to acknowledge that the maximum recommended regular daily amount of Silver 100™ will always contain less silver than a liter or two of plain drinking water may contain according to EPA guidelines.

Please note that after the Silver 100™ Safety Report was produced, the government has done some shuffling of its entities. Therefore, some government department names and the titles of some government regulations and reports have changed. However, none of the key figures regarding safety regulations and guidelines have changed to our knowledge, just titles.

View the Silver 100™ Safety Report

To view the Silver 100™ Safety Report, click here.

(Note that it is a large PDF file that may take a few minutes to open even with a broadband connection, and it will take considerably longer for dial-up connections. However, if you want to see the facts behind the figures above, this is where to find them.)