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Eli Whitmer

Lab & COA desk

joined 2026-02-044 articlespen name
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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.

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Topic specialty

COA reading and chromatogram interpretation, the Janoshik public-test corpus, the COA verifier tool, lab-method reviews, reconstitution and storage research.

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Bibliography

4 on the desk
Is Janoshik testing legit? An audit of the lab and its data
news · 2026-05-05 · 7 min

Janoshik Analytical is the EU-based third-party lab the research-peptide market uses for HPLC and mass-spec testing. We mirrored the public database and audited 200 reports. Here's what the data actually shows.

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Contact

Tips, corrections, or comments on lab desk coverage: lab@vialaudit.com

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