How do you verify a peptide COA with the lab itself?

Why check with the lab rather than the seller?

A certificate hosted by a seller can be edited, reused across lots, or copied from another company's results. The laboratory that ran the test keeps its own record of every report it issues, and checking that record is the one step that does not depend on trusting the seller.

Two things on a certificate make the check possible: the name of a real laboratory, and a unique identifier for the report, usually called an accession number or report number.

How do you verify a certificate, step by step?

• Read the header. A real certificate names the testing laboratory and its address, and often a licence number. "Third-party tested" with no lab named is not a certificate.
• Find the unique ID. Look for "Accession", "Report number" or "Sample ID". One certificate, one ID.
• Go to the lab directly. Type the laboratory's web address yourself or search for its name, rather than relying only on a link that points back to the seller's own site.
• Look the ID up on the laboratory's results or verification page.
• Compare five fields: the compound, the lot or batch number, the test date, the results, and the client name if the lab shows one.
• Match the lot to the vial. The lot on the certificate must be the lot printed on the vial you hold.
• Read the results in order: identity by mass spectrometry first, then HPLC purity, then net peptide content in milligrams.

How do you look up a Freedom Diagnostics certificate?

Freedom Diagnostics Testing, PLLC, an independent US laboratory in Franklin, Tennessee, publishes an accession lookup on its own site at https://freedomdiagnosticstesting.com/search-for-your-coa-based-on-the-unique-accession-number/. Enter the accession number printed on the certificate, and the laboratory serves its own copy of the report from its own domain.

On each Luvaminos lot page, the Verify at the lab section gives the code to look up and, where the laboratory publishes one, a link to its own copy of that certificate. The laboratory is independent: it is not owned by or affiliated with Luvaminos.

What are the red flags on a certificate?

• The laboratory named on it has no working website, or cannot be found at all.
• The ID returns nothing, or returns a different compound, lot or date.
• One certificate is shown for many lots or many months.
• The document is an image whose numbers look edited, or every lot reads exactly the same purity.
• There is a purity result but no identity result.