Quality
Where it comes from.
A supplement is only as good as the material behind it and the paperwork that proves what the material is. This page is the chain from supplier to your bottle, what we require at each link, and which parts of it you can check yourself today.
Everything below is one of three things: a document you can open, a requirement we hold suppliers to, or a record we are still building — and we say which.
A sourcing page with no gaps in it is a sourcing page with no evidence in it. Where a record does not exist yet, it is marked rather than dressed up, because the marked ones are how you judge whether to believe the rest.
Chain of custody
Supplier to bottle, in five links.
Each link has one document that proves it. Where the document is not yet in the system, the link is marked as in build.
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The supplier is qualified
Before a material is bought, the supplier record has to carry an origin, the certifications claimed, the ingredients it is approved to supply, and a status. A supplier can be active, on probation, or suspended, and material only moves from an active one.
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The material is identified
A name on a drum is a claim, not a fact. Identity testing confirms the material is what the paperwork says before it is accepted — the first place a substitution or a mislabelled shipment gets caught.
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The lot is released
Each production lot gets its own certificate covering what was tested and the result. A lot is released, on hold, or recalled — and the certificate belongs to that lot, not to the product in general. This is the difference that matters: a product-level PDF proves nothing about the bottle in your hand.
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The bottle carries the lot
The lot code printed on your label is the key that ties the bottle back to its certificate. Without it, a certificate is a document about someone else's batch.
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You check it
Look up a lot →Type the lot code and read the certificate yourself. We would rather you verified than trusted us — a claim you can check is worth more than a claim you cannot.
Qualification
What a supplier has to show us.
These are the fields a supplier record has to carry before material from it can be released into a product. A record with gaps keeps its material out of the catalogue, not on it.
Origin stated
Where the material was grown, harvested, or manufactured. Not a marketing country of association — the actual origin on record for the material we buy.
supplier.countryCertifications evidenced
GMP, ISO 22000, organic, kosher or halal are recorded only where a current certificate backs them. A certification with no document behind it is recorded as none.
supplier.certificationsScope declared
A supplier is approved for specific ingredients, not for a catalogue. Material outside the approved scope is a new qualification, not a shortcut.
supplier.ingredientsStanding that can be withdrawn
Active, on probation, or suspended. A supplier that fails a lot does not quietly stay a supplier — the status changes, and material from a suspended one is not released.
supplier.statusTesting
What a certificate actually answers.
"Third-party tested" on its own means very little — the question is what was tested, and against what. These are the tests a certificate can carry, and what each one answers.
| Test | Answers | Applies to |
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| Identity | Is this material actually what the label says it is? | Every material |
| Heavy metals | Lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury within limits? | Botanicals, minerals, marine and soil-grown materials |
| Microbial | Total counts and specified organisms within limits? | Botanicals, powders, anything with water activity |
| Pesticides | Residues within limits for the material's origin? | Agricultural and botanical materials |
| Potency | Does the active come in at the amount claimed? | Standardised extracts and actives with a stated amount |
| Residual solvents | Anything left behind from extraction? | Solvent-extracted materials |
Not every material needs every test, and a certificate listing tests that are irrelevant to the material is padding rather than rigour. What matters is that the tests appropriate to that material were run on that lot — which is why the lookup returns a lot's own certificate rather than a general one.
Boundaries
What we will not claim.
Constraints in the process, not promises in the copy.
We will not name a supplier we cannot evidence.
Until a supplier record carries its origin, certifications and scope, this page describes requirements rather than parties. An unverifiable supply story is worth less than an honest gap.
A certificate belongs to a lot.
We will not present one lot's certificate as evidence for another, and we will not publish a certificate that does not match the code on your bottle. That is the whole reason lot-level records are being built rather than a single PDF per product.
No proprietary blends.
Every ingredient is listed with its per-serving amount. A blend that hides amounts behind a trademark cannot be checked against a certificate, which makes everything else on this page unverifiable.
Tested is not the same as good.
A certificate says a material is what it claims to be and is within limits. It does not say the ingredient will do anything for you — that question belongs to the evidence on its monograph, and we keep the two apart.
Where we actually are
Built, and being built.
Publishing this is the point. You can hold us to the second list.
- Live Lot lookupThe lookup page is open and takes a lot code today.
- Live Ingredient recordsEvery ingredient we sell has a record with its evidence level, and the engine will not reason about an ingredient that has none.
- In build Supplier and lot recordsStructured supplier, batch and certificate records — the ones that make links one and three above checkable rather than described. Until they exist, those links are marked in build on this page rather than implied to be finished.
- In build Per-serving amounts as dataAmounts are printed on every label; holding them as structured data is what will let the site check a certificate against a label automatically instead of asking you to compare them by eye.
Check it yourself
Verify any of this.
Buying in bulk?
Specification sheets, certificates by lot, minimum order quantities and lead times are handled through the business channel rather than this page.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
