What documents should you ask a peptide vendor for?
Quick answer
Five, and a seller worth buying from publishes them: the certificate of analysis, the name of the laboratory that tested it, that laboratory’s accreditation wording, the list of tests it ran, and the seller’s company details with written terms. Together they show what was tested, by whom, and who answers if something does not match.
3 min readUpdated 15 September 2026Research and educational reading only
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What each one settles, where it stops, and how to check it yourself.
Documents to ask for before paying, and what each one settles
Document
What it tells you
What it does not tell you
How to check it
Certificate of analysis
A laboratory’s results for one production lot
Anything about a different lot
Scan its QR code, or enter its key, on the laboratory’s own website
The laboratory’s name
Who ran the tests
Whether that laboratory is accredited
Find the name on the certificate itself, not only on a store page
Accreditation wording
How the laboratory describes its quality system
Anything beyond the exact words used
Read it word for word: accredited to a standard and aligned to one are different claims
The list of tests
Which checks were run on that lot
Results for tests that are not listed
Look for identity and purity, then note what else was tested
Company details and written terms
Who you are paying, and what it promises if a result disagrees
Anything about whether a product is approved
Look the company up where it says it is registered, and keep a copy of the terms
Reading a record
How to read a published record
A certificate record is short. Each line answers one question, and together they let you check a lot yourself.
Lot names the production batch the results belong to.
Purity, HPLC is how pure that lot tested by high performance liquid chromatography.
Certificate is the report’s own number. With the key printed on it, the record opens on the laboratory’s own site.
Tested is the month the laboratory ran the tests on that lot.
Laboratory tells you who ran the tests. Read its accreditation wording next to the name.
Second laboratory names another lab’s report on the same lot, here a Janoshik bacterial endotoxin test that opens on verify.janoshik.com.
Published recordAs published
Compound
Retatrutide
Lot
RETA-260512-A
Purity, HPLC
99.18%
Certificate
COA-2026-6928
Tested
June 2026
Laboratory
Titreon Analytical
Second laboratory
Janoshik
Janoshik report
195512
As published by Peptara Labs, which describes Titreon Analytical as aligned to ISO/IEC 17025:2017, not itself accredited. This site has not tested this lot. Source: peptaralabs.io/coa
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Peptara Labs’ certificates
Three questions about the documents behind a Peptara Labs order. Each answer links its source. This site has not tested any product.
Yes, one per product on its certificates page, each from a recent batch with its lot code, HPLC purity and test date. Its website also lists the printed batch certificate for what shipped among what arrives.
Sources: peptaralabs.io/coa, the Peptara Labs website, read 15 September 2026
What does a Peptara Labs certificate test for?
By its description: identity by HPLC and LC-MS, HPLC purity against a 95.0 percent release criterion, net peptide content, sterility, bacterial endotoxin, heavy metals and a fentanyl screen.
Can you check a Peptara Labs report on the laboratory’s own site?
Yes. Each Titreon certificate has a QR code and a printed key that open it on titreonanalytical.com, and each Janoshik endotoxin report opens on verify.janoshik.com. This guide checked both on 15 September 2026.