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Yes — placenta encapsulation is safe when it's done in a certified lab with proper disinfection, temperature control, and individual handling. Nearly every safety concern you'll read about traces back to unregulated home-kitchen processing, where sanitation and temperature can't be guaranteed. The process itself isn't the risk — how and where it's done is.
Pluscenta was built to remove that risk. Instead of a home process, your placenta is handled in a certified lab using a medical-grade disinfection and dehydration method, shipped cold-chain via UPS Healthcare, and processed one placenta at a time. The result is clean, safe, consistent capsules — and peace of mind during your postpartum recovery.
Safety isn't a single step — it's a chain of controls from the moment your placenta leaves the hospital to the moment your capsules arrive. Here's what that looks like at Pluscenta:
Most of the difference in safety comes down to where and how the placenta is processed. Here's how Pluscenta's certified-lab process compares with a home-kitchen or DIY approach.
| Pluscenta (certified lab) | Home / DIY process | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it's processed | Certified lab | Home kitchen / countertop |
| Disinfection method | Medical-grade, standardized | Varies / none |
| Temperature handling | Cold-chain, under 24 hrs to lab | Depends on local timing |
| Cross-contamination risk | One placenta at a time, tamper-evident | Shared home equipment |
| Additives / fillers | None — 100% your placenta | Varies by provider |
| Accountability | BBB A-rated, tracked process | Unregulated, varies |
A home or DIY process can't guarantee disinfection, temperature, or contamination control — and that's where the documented risks come from. A certified lab standardizes every one of those variables, which is why lab-based encapsulation is the safe way to do it.
The largest study to date on placenta consumption — a review of more than 23,000 birth records published in the peer-reviewed journal Birth (2018) — found that placentophagy was not associated with any adverse outcomes for newborns, including NICU admissions, hospitalization, or infant death in the first six weeks. The researchers also found that how the placenta was prepared — cooked or uncooked — made no difference to those safety outcomes.
Two things worth being clear about. First, that study measured safety, not benefits — there is not yet strong clinical evidence that encapsulation prevents postpartum depression, so it is best seen as a complement to, not a replacement for, care from your provider. Second, the rare safety concerns on record trace back to unregulated, home-based processing — which is exactly why Pluscenta processes every placenta in a certified lab.
Source: Benyshek DC, Cheyney M, Brown J, Bovbjerg ML. Placentophagy among women planning community births in the United States: Frequency, rationale, and associated neonatal outcomes. Birth. 2018;45(4):459–468. doi:10.1111/birt.12354
Yes — placenta encapsulation is safe when it's done in a certified lab with proper disinfection, temperature control, and individual handling. The risks that have made headlines come almost entirely from unregulated home-kitchen processing, where temperature and sanitation can't be guaranteed. Pluscenta processes every placenta in a certified lab using a medical-grade disinfection and dehydration method, with cold-chain shipping and tamper-evident handling, so your capsules are clean, safe, and consistent.
Placenta pills made in a certified lab are safe to take. At Pluscenta, your capsules are 100% your own placenta — no chemical additives, preservatives, or fillers — processed under standardized, lab-safe conditions. Thousands of mothers have used them as part of their postpartum recovery. As with any supplement, let your healthcare provider know you're taking them.
A certified lab guarantees three things a home kitchen can't: validated disinfection that eliminates pathogens, controlled dehydration temperatures, and one-placenta-at-a-time handling that rules out cross-contamination. Pluscenta also keeps the placenta in a cold chain from your hospital to our lab, so it's never sitting at unsafe temperatures. That's the difference between a standardized medical process and an unregulated one.
Each placenta is processed individually in a certified lab using a proprietary medical-grade disinfection step before dehydration. It travels in a tamper-evident container with cold-chain packaging via UPS Healthcare, reaching our lab within 24 hours. Equipment and surfaces are sanitized between every order, so there is no contact between one client's placenta and another's.
Yes. We partner with UPS Healthcare — the same cold-chain network used to transport sensitive biological samples — and every kit includes insulated packaging and cold materials. The placenta reaches our lab within 24 hours, keeping it at safe temperatures the entire way. Shipping to a certified lab is actually safer than waiting for a local provider to fit you into their schedule.
The cases public-health agencies have flagged were tied to home or unregulated processing where the placenta wasn't properly disinfected or kept cold. That's exactly why Pluscenta exists as a lab-based service: standardized disinfection, cold-chain handling, and individual processing remove the variables that cause those problems. Our facility holds an A rating from the Better Business Bureau, a rare distinction in this category.
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