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SS-31 Real vs Fake: Supplier Comparison
Third-Party COA Provides batch-specific COA from named independent lab (e.g., SGS, Eurofins) with HPLC ≥98%, mass spec confirmation, endotoxin testing No COA, or 'in-house' purity report with no external lab listed COA from a named third-party lab is the singl
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- Third-Party COA
- Provides batch-specific COA from named independent lab (e.g., SGS, Eurofins) with HPLC ≥98%, mass spec confirmation, endotoxin testing
- No COA, or 'in-house' purity report with no external lab listed
- COA from a named third-party lab is the single most important verification. Without it, there is no evidence the vial contains what the label claims
- Business Transparency
- Published physical address, phone contact, business registration, GMP compliance documentation
- No physical address, encrypted-app-only contact, cryptocurrency-only payments, refuses to disclose location
- Legitimate suppliers operate transparently. Vendors who hide their location or refuse standard payment methods are statistically more likely to sell counterfeit product
- Reconstitution Behavior
- Dissolves completely in <90 seconds, clear colorless solution, no particles or cloudiness
- Does not dissolve, leaves suspension, cloudy or discolored solution post-reconstitution
- Reconstitution is a bench-level diagnostic. If the peptide does not dissolve cleanly, it is degraded, contaminated, or not a peptide at all
- Pricing Relative to Market
- $120–$180 per gram (reflects actual synthesis cost for D-amino acid incorporation and purification)
- <$60 per gram (below cost of legitimate synthesis)
- Pricing far below market average is the clearest signal of underdosing or counterfeit product. Legitimate peptide synthesis has a floor cost
- Batch Consistency
- Slight purity variation across batches (97.5–99.2%). Reflects real synthesis variation
- Identical purity across all batches (e.g., always exactly 98.7%). Statistically improbable, suggests fabricated COAs
- Real peptide synthesis produces slight batch-to-batch variation. Identical results suggest data fabrication, not quality control