{"schemaVersion":"litmus-open-data-2026-07-20","methodologyVersion":"1.0.0","entityId":"vendor:sterling-peptides","recordType":"seller_record","entityType":"seller_record","assessmentScope":"Research-product seller evidence","recordScope":"Research-product seller evidence","slug":"sterling-peptides","name":"Sterling Peptides","canonicalRecord":"/vendors/sterling-peptides","canonicalDataRecord":"/api/vendors/sterling-peptides","relatedRecords":[],"websiteUrl":"https://sterlingpeptides.co.uk/","side":"unvalidated","reason":"Research catalogue uses 1 prescription-medicine ingredient name; this is not a verified human-use route","note":"Domain registered 26 Feb 2026","rule":"Validated means we independently verified the evidence — an official register entry or a lab report that checks out against the source. Unvalidated means we could not verify it yet. It is a statement about our evidence, not an accusation.","verdict":"The storefront is closed: sterlingpeptides.co.uk returned NXDOMAIN on 21 Aug 2026 and Nominet RDAP shows server hold. The matching UK company STERLING PEPTIDES LTD (17078386) remains active on Companies House. Domain registered 26 Feb 2026. PepCred publishes these public-record facts and does not 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 26 Feb 2026 — 7 months ago, via Tucows Inc t/a Tucows. Under a year old — a common new-seller caution.","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":"warn","sources":[{"href":"https://rdap.org/domain/sterlingpeptides.co.uk","label":"ICANN RDAP record"}]},{"signal":"Company register","finding":"Matches STERLING PEPTIDES LTD (company 17078386) on the UK Companies House register — active, incorporated 9 Mar 2026.","howWeChecked":"An exact, active match on a public company register is a hard-to-fake positive. We only claim a match when a single active company exactly matches the brand.","tone":"good","sources":[{"href":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17078386","label":"Companies House"}]},{"signal":"Prescription gatekeeping","finding":"The dated seller-catalogue snapshot uses 1 active-ingredient name also found in approved prescription medicines (Tirzepatide); the research listing does not inherit the branded medicine's approval. Lists 2 investigational drugs with no approved formulation (Retatrutide, Cagrilintide).","howWeChecked":"We require a dated seller-catalogue receipt and an official product-status source. An ingredient name alone blocks a verified human-use route, but does not establish prescription bypass, intended human use or seller misconduct.","tone":"warn","sources":[{"href":"https://sterlingpeptides.co.uk/","label":"Seller catalogue"},{"href":"/compounds/tirzepatide","label":"Tirzepatide · product status"},{"href":"/compounds/retatrutide","label":"Retatrutide · product status"},{"href":"/compounds/cagrilintide","label":"Cagrilintide · product status"}]},{"signal":"Legal compliance","finding":"Not a verified human-use route. The dated research catalogue used 1 ingredient name (Tirzepatide) associated with prescription or regulator-warned products. An ingredient name alone does not establish unlawful sale or intended human use; PepCred found no matched prescriber-and-pharmacy route for a consumer purchase.","howWeChecked":"We judge legal compliance only from the products we actually indexed — never from an unchecked catalogue.","tone":"warn","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 8 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://sterlingpeptides.co.uk/","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 routes are outside what we checked 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. That reading is not part of this seller's record.","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 Kingdom.","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":[{"name":"Cagrilintide","slug":"cagrilintide","legalClass":"investigational"},{"name":"GHK-Cu","slug":"ghk-cu","legalClass":"cosmetic"},{"name":"Ipamorelin","slug":"ipamorelin","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"MOTS-c","slug":"mots-c","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"Retatrutide","slug":"retatrutide","legalClass":"investigational"},{"name":"Tirzepatide","slug":"tirzepatide","legalClass":"approved_rx"}]}