{"schemaVersion":"litmus-open-data-2026-07-20","methodologyVersion":"1.0.0","entityId":"vendor:verified-peptides","recordType":"seller_record","entityType":"seller_record","assessmentScope":"Research-product seller evidence","recordScope":"Research-product seller evidence","slug":"verified-peptides","name":"Verified Peptides","canonicalRecord":"/vendors/verified-peptides","canonicalDataRecord":"/api/vendors/verified-peptides","relatedRecords":[],"websiteUrl":"https://verifiedpeptides.com/","side":"unvalidated","reason":"Research catalogue uses 1 prescription-medicine ingredient name; this is not a verified human-use route","note":null,"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":"We could not find a public registration record for its domain (so its age is unknown); 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; 4 of 8 transparency signals were found on its own published pages. 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":"No public domain-registration (RDAP) record was found, so the website's age is unknown.","howWeChecked":"We never infer a domain's age. With no RDAP record the signal is left unknown — an absence, not a penalty.","tone":"neutral","sources":[]},{"signal":"Company register","finding":"A jurisdiction-appropriate official business record has not been matched for Verified 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":"The dated seller-catalogue snapshot uses 1 active-ingredient name also found in approved prescription medicines (PT-141); the research listing does not inherit the branded medicine's approval.","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://verifiedpeptides.com/","label":"Seller catalogue"},{"href":"/compounds/pt-141","label":"PT-141 · product status"}]},{"signal":"Legal compliance","finding":"Not a verified human-use route. The dated research catalogue used 1 ingredient name (PT-141) 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 10 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://verifiedpeptides.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":"Accepts: Card.","howWeChecked":"Stable card processing means a payment processor did some KYC — a weak positive. Crypto-only / transfer-only payment is a caution because there is no chargeback recourse. Read from the seller's own published pages.","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":"Publishes its own certificate-of-analysis documents.","howWeChecked":"A vendor-published COA is the vendor's own claim — cherry-pickable and copyable — so it earns no trust weight. It would move to Tier 1 only if the report number verified against the lab's own records.","tone":"neutral","sources":[{"href":"https://verifiedpeptides.com/lab-reports/","label":"vendor's own COA — their claim"}]},{"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":[{"name":"5-Amino-1MQ","slug":"5-amino-1mq","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"AOD-9604","slug":"aod-9604","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"BPC-157","slug":"bpc-157","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"CJC-1295","slug":"cjc-1295","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"Epitalon","slug":"epitalon","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"GHK-Cu","slug":"ghk-cu","legalClass":"cosmetic"},{"name":"Ipamorelin","slug":"ipamorelin","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"MOTS-c","slug":"mots-c","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"PT-141","slug":"pt-141","legalClass":"approved_rx"},{"name":"Selank","slug":"selank","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"Semax","slug":"semax","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"TB-500","slug":"tb-500","legalClass":"unapproved"},{"name":"Thymosin Alpha-1","slug":"thymosin-alpha-1","legalClass":"unapproved"}]}