Is the lab on your COA legit?

Vanguard Laboratory is real, accredited, and independently verifiable — the strongest tier of lab verification we track. A search for "is Vanguard Laboratory legit" gets a clean, confident yes.

Last reviewed November 3, 2026

Kovera Labs is real, not a fabricated identity — its published-failure-rate data and a directly-checked negative on the "IP overlap" claim are genuine positive signals. But operator anonymity, one unconfirmed fraud allegation, and a newly-found pattern of undisclosed certificate revisions (57 of 1,828 public COAs re-certified since first recorded, 20 with changed values, no public explanation) keep it below the other labs we track. Re-review after Kovera has a longer operating history and addresses the revision pattern publicly.

Last reviewed November 3, 2026

Chromate is real and independently verifiable, not a fabricated identity — but it's younger than it markets itself as, not accredited, and its ownership traces to a company that has let its own state registration lapse. Treat a Chromate COA as one real data point, not a guarantee.

Last reviewed November 3, 2026

Freedom Diagnostics is real, actively growing, and independently verifiable via a large public COA database used by multiple unrelated vendors. Not ISO 17025 accredited — CLIA registration alone doesn't cover research peptide analysis, a disclosed limitation, not a fraud signal.

Last reviewed November 3, 2026

Horizon Analytical is real and independently verifiable — we tested its own portal ourselves and got a reproducible historical match. Not accredited, no public address, several safety-relevant panels remain unbuilt, and new reporting ties it operationally to Aspire Labs (which also owns vendor Direct Peptides) in a way that sits uneasily with Horizon's own independence claim for that specific relationship: a legitimate mid-tier verification with a real open question, not a full safety guarantee.

Last reviewed November 3, 2026

Janoshik Analytical is real, long-operating, community-trusted, and independently verifiable via a public batch-key lookup — but not accredited. Treat that as a known limitation of the strongest lab in this space, not a red flag unique to Janoshik.

Last reviewed November 3, 2026