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It is a statement about our evidence, not an accusation.","verdict":"Its domain was registered in April 2025 (about a year old); we have not checked a company register for it, because it states a United States jurisdiction and PepCred currently checks only the UK Companies House register; its site was not reachable for an automated transparency crawl. With no independent lab results or verified community reviews yet, Litmus publishes these public-record facts but does not yet assign an overall trust score.","evidence":{"tier1":{"title":"Independent verification","sub":"Hard-to-fake records we checked at the source — registers, the ICANN domain record, independent lab verification, regulator actions.","tag":"Tier 1 · high weight","rows":[{"signal":"Domain age","finding":"Registered 3 Apr 2025 — 17 months ago, via Cloudflare, Inc..","howWeChecked":"Domains under 12 months old are a new-seller caution. An older registration is context only because domains can change owners. The date comes from public ICANN RDAP.","tone":"neutral","sources":[{"href":"https://rdap.org/domain/penguinpeptides.com","label":"ICANN RDAP record"}]},{"signal":"Company register","finding":"A jurisdiction-appropriate official business record has not been matched for Penguin Peptides.","howWeChecked":"UK sellers are checked against Companies House. US sellers need an exact state or federal entity record; PepCred does not apply UK registration rules to them.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Prescription gatekeeping","finding":"No current catalogue evidence is available, so prescription gatekeeping is unknown.","howWeChecked":"We classify every product against FDA/MHRA records. A clean result here reflects only the pages we indexed, never a guarantee about the whole catalogue.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Legal compliance","finding":"Not assessed. We have not yet indexed this site's catalogue, so its legal position is not assessed.","howWeChecked":"We judge legal compliance only from the products we actually indexed — never from an unchecked catalogue.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Independent lab verification","finding":"No independent lab results on file yet.","howWeChecked":"Only independent HPLC/MS results count toward a lab score. A vendor's own certificates of analysis are shown but never unlock a score — they're too easy to cherry-pick.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Regulator actions","finding":"No regulator actions against this vendor are on record in the sources we monitor.","howWeChecked":"We surface published actions from the FDA, MHRA and other regulators. Absence reflects the sources we monitor, not a clean bill of health.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]}]},"tier2":{"title":"Forensics","sub":"Circumstantial signals that are hard to fake at scale — operator fingerprints, what the seller publishes, payment routes.","tag":"Tier 2 · medium weight","rows":[{"signal":"Transparency crawl","finding":"0 of 8 transparency signals were published on the vendor's own site (crawled 2 Aug 2026).","howWeChecked":"Counts only signals the vendor actually publishes — named lab, batch COAs, shipping origin, working support, and so on. “Not found” earns no credit but is never scored as a failure.","tone":"neutral","sources":[{"href":"https://penguinpeptides.com/","label":"crawler snapshot"}]},{"signal":"Verified reviews","finding":"No verified community reviews yet.","howWeChecked":"We need at least 3 credible, non-manipulation reviews before any experience score is shown. Trustpilot-style star scores are excluded by design — they're the easiest signal to fake.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Shared-operator network","finding":"No shared-operator fingerprint was detected among the signals we checked.","howWeChecked":"We look for shared naming, templates and infrastructure across brands. A clean result reflects the signals we checked, not a guarantee of independence.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Payment forensics","finding":"Payment methods have not yet been assessed for this seller.","howWeChecked":"We read payment routes from the seller's own published checkout pages. Card processing means a processor did some KYC (a weak positive); crypto-only or transfer-only means no chargeback recourse. Not yet assessed here.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]}]},"tier0":{"title":"The vendor's own claims","sub":"Shown for completeness only. A seller controls these completely, so they earn zero trust weight — a claim is not a verification.","tag":"Tier 0 · no trust weight","rows":[{"signal":"Vendor's own COA","finding":"No self-published certificate of analysis was found on the pages we crawled.","howWeChecked":"A vendor-published COA is the vendor's own claim and earns no trust weight either way — we note its presence or absence for completeness only.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Stated ship origin","finding":"States it ships from United States.","howWeChecked":"Ship origin is self-reported by the seller and is not independently verified — displayed as their claim only.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Star-review scores","finding":"We do not collect or display Trustpilot-style star scores for this or any seller.","howWeChecked":"Star-review walls can be bought, brigaded or review-gated, and a real one can't be told from a manipulated one at source — so they earn zero trust weight here by design.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]}]}},"compoundsCarried":[]}