Guides

How to read vendor records and compare prices.

Practical notes on COAs, exact-product comparisons, and the way PepGrades handles missing information.

An open research notebook, testing record, magnifying glass, and annotation tabs
Notes on the method and the data.
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Testing records

COA basics

What to check on a certificate of analysis.

Connect the report to a compound, batch, date, vendor, and laboratory before using it as evidence.

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Testing · 6 min

What a COA can and cannot show

A certificate is useful, but only when you can tell what was tested, when, by whom, and for which batch.
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Price · 5 min

How to compare peptide prices fairly

A lower sticker price is not always a lower price for the same amount, form, and package.
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Evidence · 5 min

Why missing information stays neutral

Not finding a reliable source is different from finding evidence that something went wrong.
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