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Fact sheet

What it is
Third-party lab analysis of peptides for buyers in the Philippines. Tested.ph is a testing and verification service, not a laboratory.
How results are produced
Vials are coded and analysed by a named partner laboratory, signed by its registered chemist under Republic Act 10657, and published on a record with a task number and key.
Partner laboratory
Partner laboratory to be announced
Tested Index
Vendor grades built only from vials Tested.ph buys anonymously. Method published at tested.ph/methodology.
Rankings
Vendors can pay for testing and for the Tested Verified badge. Nothing a vendor pays for changes a score, a grade or the order of the Index.
Free resources
16 Testing School lessons, 10 free tools, 30 compound pages, 30 figures, an open dataset.
Founded
2026

Figure library

All 30 figures are original. You may reproduce them for editorial and educational use under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0: credit "Figure: Tested.ph" and link to tested.ph. Do not alter them to change their meaning or use them in advertising for a product.

FIG 1Anatomy of a peptide vial

A vial in cross-section showing the flip-off cap, the aluminium crimp, the rubber stopper, the freeze-dried cake at the bottom and the empty headspace above it.

FIG 2Freeze-dried cake: intact and collapsed

Two vials side by side. The left holds an even, intact freeze-dried cake. The right holds a shrunken, collapsed cake pulled away from the glass.

FIG 3Sealed and coded

A vial inside a sealed evidence bag with a tamper strip and a coded tag that replaces the vendor's label.

FIG 4Chain of custody in five stations

Five stations joined by a line: purchase, intake and coding, partner lab analysis, signed report and fingerprint, public record.

FIG 5How an HPLC system is laid out

Solvent reservoir feeding a pump, then an injector where the sample enters, then the column where components separate, then a UV detector that writes the chromatogram.

FIG 6A chromatogram

Detector response over time, with one tall main peak for the target peptide and two small impurity peaks before and after it.

FIG 7Purity is a ratio of peak areas

The main peak's shaded area divided by the total shaded area of all peaks gives the purity percentage.

FIG 8An impurity hiding under the main peak

Two overlapping peaks that the detector sees as one, so an impurity is counted as part of the main peak and purity looks higher than it is.

FIG 9Expected and observed mass

A mass spectrum with a dashed marker at the expected mass and the observed peak sitting on it, labelled as a match within tolerance.

FIG 10When identity fails

The expected mass marker for the labelled peptide sits empty while the observed peak appears at a different mass belonging to another molecule.

FIG 11Net peptide content versus purity

A stacked bar of the powder in a vial: peptide, peptide-related impurities, counter-ions and water. Purity describes only the peptide portion relative to its impurities; net peptide content is the peptide share of the whole powder.

FIG 12Counter-ions and water in the powder

Two powder bars compared: a TFA salt form and an acetate form, each split into peptide, counter-ion and water shares.

FIG 13Amount against the label

Three vials with a dashed label line: one measuring under the line, one on it, one over it, labelled underfilled, on label and overfilled.

FIG 14A deletion sequence

A chain of amino acid beads with one bead missing, showing an impurity that is the target peptide minus one residue.

FIG 15Degradation over time

Purity plotted against time for a well-stored and a poorly stored vial, with the poorly stored line falling faster.

FIG 16The LAL endotoxin test, simplified

Sample added to a reagent made from horseshoe crab blood cells; endotoxin triggers a reaction measured as clotting, turbidity or colour, read against a standard curve.

FIG 17Sterility and endotoxin are different tests

Two panels: sterility asks whether living microorganisms grow from the sample; endotoxin asks how much bacterial cell-wall material is present, living or dead.

FIG 18Measuring against a reference standard

A known amount of reference material gives a calibration line; the sample's peak area is read against that line to give milligrams.

FIG 19Blind testing

The vendor name stays with Tested.ph; the lab receives only a sample code; results are matched back to the vendor after the report is signed.

FIG 20Anatomy of a certificate of analysis

A generic certificate with numbered callouts: issuing lab, sample description, batch, test date, methods, results, signature and licence, verification code.

FIG 21Red flags on a certificate

A generic certificate with warning marks on a missing batch number, no verification route, no signature, a cropped edge and a purity figure without a method.

FIG 22Batch, lot and vial

A production batch divided into lots, each lot filled into many vials, showing that a vial is one unit of a much larger run.

FIG 23One vial is not the whole batch

A tray of vials from one batch with one vial highlighted as tested; the rest are untested and could differ.

FIG 24Splitting one test across a group

Several buyers holding vials with the same batch code; one sealed vial goes to the lab and every buyer receives the same record key.

FIG 25How the Tested Index weights a batch

A bar divided into purity 35 percent, amount 35 percent, consistency 20 percent and transparency 10 percent.

FIG 26Recent batches count more

A curve showing a batch's weight halving every six months, with a cut-off at twelve months.

FIG 27From key to record

A report showing a task number, key and QR code; scanning or typing them opens the public record on tested.ph.

FIG 28Matching the report fingerprint

The signed PDF passes through SHA-256 to produce a fingerprint; a copy of the PDF produces the same fingerprint only if nothing was changed.

FIG 29Getting a vial to intake

A stylised map of the Philippine archipelago with routes from Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao converging on one intake point.

FIG 30Storage conditions for a vial

A vial between three gauges: temperature, light and moisture, each with a safe and an unsafe zone, illustrating that storage after sale is outside what a test describes.

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