HIGHER COMPOSITEVENDOR AUDIT
Ion Peptide
US research-peptide vendor whose 106 Kovera Labs reports (median 99.93% purity, zero failures) remain its strongest signal - but those records live on the lab's side, because as of 12 October 2026 Ion's own site returns a site-wide Cloudflare block to us and retail prices are account-gated. Coded ION-X SKU naming on a subset of products carries a regulatory-exposure deduction.
VENDOR AUDIT
POWERpepsUSA
New US shop on a WooCommerce storefront, domain registered April 2026, selling 22 research compounds with unusually complete certificates: full panels on 17 of 21 products, mostly from Optiq Health Labs, a real California lab. None of it is in our independent mirrors, two certificates come from an unverifiable lab, pricing runs well above our index on several staples, and payment is Venmo or Zelle only. Retatrutide is sold under its real name and we found no FDA action. Public-data audit, no first-hand order, 64/100.