{"schemaVersion":"litmus-open-data-2026-07-20","methodologyVersion":"1.0.0","entityId":"vendor:zava","recordType":"registered_pharmacy_record","entityType":"registered_pharmacy_record","assessmentScope":"Registered pharmacy and seller evidence","recordScope":"Registered pharmacy and seller evidence","slug":"zava","name":"ZAVA","canonicalRecord":"/vendors/zava","canonicalDataRecord":"/api/vendors/zava","relatedRecords":[],"websiteUrl":"https://www.zavamed.com","side":"validated","reason":"Verified on the GPhC pharmacy register · #9011147 · checked 21 Jun 2026","note":"Inspection: standards met (17 Sep 2024)","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":"ZAVA is confirmed on the GPhC register as an active UK pharmacy (premises 9011147, owner Health Bridge Limited, London). It dispenses prescription-only medicines only against a prescription — the regulated route, not a grey-market seller.","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":"Pharmacy registration","finding":"Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacy (GPhC #9011147), operated by Health Bridge Limited. It dispenses prescription-only medicines only against a prescription.","howWeChecked":"A pharmacy on the GPhC pharmacy-premises register is a licensed, regulated seller — the opposite of a grey-market site. Open the register to confirm the entry is active.","tone":"good","sources":[{"href":"https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/registers/pharmacy/registrationnumber/9011147","label":"GPhC register"}]},{"signal":"Prescription gatekeeping","finding":"As a registered pharmacy, it supplies prescription-only medicines only after a prescription — the regulated route.","howWeChecked":"For a licensed pharmacy, requiring a prescription is the expected, safe behaviour — the exact inverse of a grey-market site selling the same medicine with no prescription.","tone":"good","sources":[]},{"signal":"Legal compliance","finding":"Registered pharmacy route. The seller is recorded on the GPhC pharmacy register and states that prescription-only medicines require a valid prescription.","howWeChecked":"We verified the pharmacy registration at the official source; registration is not a guarantee that every product or transaction is risk-free.","tone":"good","sources":[{"href":"https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1916/contents/made","label":"UK Human Medicines Regulations 2012"}]},{"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 23 Jul 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://www.zavamed.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":"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":[]}