32 public thymosin alpha-1 lab results: median fill 113.2% of label, purity 99.70%, no fails. Plus FDA's 17-to-4 advisory vote against compounding it.
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Eli Whitmer
Lab & COA desk
About
Eli runs the lab-data side of the desk: COA reading, chromatogram interpretation, the Janoshik corpus, and the COA verifier tool. His background is analytical chemistry — twelve years in HPLC-MS method development at QC labs serving the supplements and pharmaceutical industries. He's the reason vialaudit asks specific questions about peak shape, integration windows, and signal-to-noise rather than just citing the purity percentage at the bottom of a report. If a vendor's COA uses a method that wouldn't pass an FDA inspection, Eli writes about it. Eli writes under a pen name. He still works in the analytical-chem world; a public byline on grey-market peptide commentary would be career-difficult. The pseudonymity is the price of getting the analysis at all.
Topic specialty
COA reading and chromatogram interpretation, the Janoshik public-test corpus, the COA verifier tool, lab-method reviews, reconstitution and storage research.
Bibliography
Freedom Diagnostics signs more vendor COAs than any lab in PepIndex's index, and its lookup works. No ISO 17025 accreditation found. How to check a report.
Is Glacier Aminos legit? 78 Kovera Labs reports: median fill 110.2% of label, median purity 99.92%, 3 fails. Plus two similar-name domains in search.
Two FDA death reports name products sold as retatrutide, per CBS News, and poison center exposures rose from 249 to 862 a quarter. What they can show.
A trial doctor told Women's Health grey-market reta often lacks active ingredient. 319 of 322 published identity tests disagree; Finnrick shows 16% fail.
2,087 public peptide lab results from six sources: median HPLC purity 99.86%, median fill 109.6% of label, and 47.6% of vials over 110%.
Reta One Labs, Beast Labs, Alpha One Aminos and Renova Peptides share 21 Kovera lot numbers: 22 tests issued as 87 certificates. What that means for you.
UBT251 cut weight up to 19.7% at 24 weeks in a Chinese Phase 2; retatrutide cut 17.5% at 24 weeks. Our lab mirrors hold zero UBT251 test records.
Vanguard's A2LA scope lists no peptide test. For 42 Core Peptides reports, the shop's PDF drops the quantity line the lab's own copy prints.
18.50 EU/mg on a 10 mg vial is 185 EU per vial. How to convert endotoxin units, where USP <85> limits come from, and why a lab's Pass depends on the spec.
68 retatrutide and 48 tirzepatide Janoshik reports to 30 June 2026: median 110% and 113% of label, purity 99.8%, one vial under 90%.
EloraTZP lost 23.3% at 48 weeks in type 2 diabetes vs 20.8% for retatrutide at 80 weeks. Why that is not a head-to-head, and what eloralintide is.
Reddit testers report reta vials that tested as semaglutide or held no analyte. How to tell a fake or degraded vial from a slow response.
Matthew Kawa admitted forging lab certificates and was sentenced to 70 months on 30 July 2026. Six products sold as SARMs tested as testosterone. What a COA can prove, what it cannot, and the checks that hold.
We re-ran every one of the 1,828 Kovera certificates we mirror. 57 had been revised under the same reference number, 20 of those moved a real value, and none crossed the 98% pass line. A COA number is not a stable citation.
Kovera's results check out; the company behind it is unverified. What reviews and Reddit say, which vendors use it, and how to check a KVR code yourself.
29 research-peptide vendors have published 20 or more COAs through Kovera Labs. Ion Peptide leads at 105 records with zero flags. Two heavy publishers have concentrated quality issues. The full ranked table, deduped flag breakdown, and what to do with it as a buyer.
Kovera Labs is a US peptide testing lab listing an Illinois address. What 1,816 of its COAs show, vendor by vendor: who passes, who fails and how to check.
Cloudiness in a reconstituted peptide vial is one of the most common buyer panics. It's sometimes harmless aggregation, sometimes contamination, sometimes solvent-induced precipitation. Here's how to tell which one.
BAC water and syringe math for 5, 10 and 20 mg retatrutide vials, mapped to the TRIUMPH-2 dose steps. Research only, not human-use guidance.
Tesamorelin is a synthetic GHRH analog that prompts the pituitary to release endogenous GH. HGH is the hormone itself. Here's what the literature says about both, why a growing community is switching from one to the other, and what to consider before you do.
Yes, as a lab. Janoshik is an independent Czech lab whose reports verify on its own servers. What 337 public reports show, and what a pass does not prove.
Scan the QR or enter the test ID on Janoshik's Verify page, then match compound, purity and sample date at verify.janoshik.com. No test ID, no check.
43% of vendor-claimed purity figures failed independent retesting. The gap concentrates in three patterns you can avoid before clicking buy.
10 mg peptide plus 2 mL bac water gives 5 mg/mL, so 250 mcg is 5 units on a U-100 syringe. Printable chart and worked vial examples.
Contact
Tips, corrections, or comments on lab desk coverage: lab@vialaudit.com