The Four Disclosures
Four things any laboratory testing research peptides should publish about itself. They are not difficult questions, and the answers are checkable — which is the only reason they are worth asking.
We publish ours below. We do not publish anyone else’s, and we do not name other laboratories on this page. Ask them yourself; the questions travel.
- 01
Where is the testing physically performed, and is any of it subcontracted?
ISO/IEC 17025 §7.8.2.1(c) requires an accredited report to state where the work was done, and §6.6 governs externally provided services. A laboratory that does not say where your sample goes cannot tell you who is accountable for it, or under whose law.
Vector Analytical
All analysis is performed in our own facility in the United States. Samples are not shipped onward. Where a method is not performed in-house and must be subcontracted, the report names the performing laboratory and its accreditation status.
Not yet published: The street address is published on every report and in the footer once the facility address is confirmed for publication.
- 02
Which body accredits you, to what certificate number, and for exactly which methods?
Accreditation is scope-bound, not laboratory-bound: it covers an enumerated list of methods and nothing else. A badge without a number and a scope is unverifiable, and every accreditation body publishes a searchable directory precisely so you do not have to trust the badge.
Vector Analytical
Vector Analytical does not claim ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation today, and its certificates say so: every result prints "Not accredited". If accreditation is granted, the accrediting body, certificate number and full scope will be published on this site, where they can be checked against the body's own public directory — not merely in a PDF we host.
Not yet published: No accreditation is claimed. This answer changes only when a certificate number, accrediting body and scope can be published.
- 03
Do you have any ownership or commercial relationship with the vendors whose material you test?
A laboratory paid by the seller has an interest in the result. That is not disqualifying — it is the normal commercial arrangement — but concealing it is. ISO/IEC 17025 §4.1 requires impartiality risks to be identified and minimised on an ongoing basis.
Vector Analytical
We hold no equity in, and receive no commission from, any vendor whose material we test. Every report names the party who commissioned it on its face. There are no volume discounts contingent on results, and a failing result is reported, published to the record, and invoiced exactly as a passing one is.
- 04
Do you publish every result, or only the ones your customer approves?
This is the disclosure almost nobody makes, and the one that matters most. A laboratory that publishes selectively produces a body of evidence that is true in every particular and misleading as a whole.
Vector Analytical
Every test we perform is issued to a numbered record in one unbroken series. A customer chooses whether the contents of their record are public; they do not choose whether the record exists. A missing number would be visible to anyone counting.