A final ruling entered in the Superior Court of the State of California County of San Francisco in April 2004, annouced that Sun Ten Laboratories and Brion Herbs Corporation products are compliant with Proposition 65's uniquely stringent requirements.

The Proposition 65 violation allegations were brought against Sun Ten Laboratories Inc., a manufacture of herbal products, located in Irvine, CA, specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Brion Herbs Corporation, a distributor of Sun Ten products, in October of 2001, and a number of other Chinese Medicine companies.

The basis of the suit was California Proposition 65. Proposition 65 is a statewide voter initiative known as the Safe Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This proposition sets forth very stringent limitations on heavy metals and chemicals that are found in drinking water and numerous other products, including virtually all herbal products. Various groups have used Proposition 65 to file lawsuites against a variety of industries including the dietary supplement industry, chocolate manufacturers and other companies that use herbs in their processes.

Of the numerous herbal companies sued to date, Sun Ten and Brion Herbs are the only companies who have successfully fought the Proposition 65 suite by proving that thier products were no in violation of the California law.

The allegations stated that all of the Sun Ten and Brion Herbs' formulations and single herbs were violation of Proposition 65. Over a period of three years, Sun Ten Labs and Brion Herbs Corporation engaged in a process of costly research and methods of verification of manufacturing processes, using an international team of esteemed soil experts, herbal experts, pre-eminent academic experts, and scientists in realated fields to document that all their herbal products, manufacturing practices, sources of herbs and the soils in which they were grown do not add any metal pollutants, and that heavy metals that occur naturally in soils were reduced to the lowest levels possible. In this process they were able to demonstrate that all their products met the requirements of Proposition 65.

The winning of this case establishes that Sun Ten and Brion Herbs Products are compliant with Proposition 65 requirements for heavy metals and that their manufacturing process supports the healthy results for which the products are intended.

We thank you for your support, and hope that Sun Ten and Brion Herb's Proposition 65 compliance will provide you with confidence and comfort in dispensing our products to your patients.