How checks are performed

Every disposition in the ledger is a reading of evidence, with a date. This page states what we read, what we record, and what a null means.

What counts as evidence

We read the seller's own published pages and public registers. A marketing claim satisfies a criterion only when the criterion asks for a claim. Where a criterion asks for a fact, the fact must be shown: a named pharmacy, a reachable document, a printed price.

We record the source beside every disposition. A reader should be able to repeat the check from the record alone.

Dates

Seller pages change. Every disposition carries the month it was read, and a disposition is a statement about that month, not about today. Re-checks update the date.

What a null means

Not verified means the check has not been completed to the recorded date. It is not a finding. It never counts for a seller, and it never counts against one.

The enforcement check

Criterion S8 is checked against FDA's full warning-letter index, downloaded and searched locally. The search runs with a positive control: a known letter must be found in the same run, or no absence is recorded. Candidate hits are attributed by entity and address, never by name resemblance.

Corrections

Errors reported to standards@peptidealliance.org are checked against the source and corrected with a dated note. A disposition changes when the evidence changes.

Funding

Some ledger links are partner links, and the site earns a commission on care started through them. The funding page describes this in full. Dispositions are recorded against the published criteria and are not for sale.