Detox and binders
Does activated charcoal remove heavy metals?
The corpus records a PubMed search, on 14 October 2026, of activated charcoal with lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic, or thallium in humans that returned no records. No human trial is graded. That search result is not evidence that charcoal has no effect. It means a qualifying study was not found.
Search recorded in the corpus
The search combined the MeSH term for activated charcoal with those metals and a human limit. Water-treatment research on activated carbon is not a human detox trial and is not used here.
Sources
Heavy Metal Index
Heavy Metal Index: metal registry. This Heavy Metal Index URL returned HTTP 200 on 15 October 2026. Figures on this page are not copied from that index. They come from the sources named above.
What's safe to buy
The Heavy Metal Tested and Certified public register listed no licensees on 15 October 2026. That page reported 0 certified brands and 0 certified products, and it stated that no brand has completed the three-lot baseline. A specimen layout on the register is an illustration, not a licensee. This page does not name or rank any brand.
The program states that certification is a measurement of a product against a published limit, not a statement that the product is safe. If a licensee is later listed for this category, it will be on the register.
This page summarizes cited documents. It does not diagnose or prescribe. Reviewed 15 October 2026.