Two reference numbers, and an honest account of what sits behind them. Which is not a laboratory report.
The Glyco Harmony material we were given records lot GLY-26/GO-2503 and certificate reference GLY-2503-26-GO. The same document states that both are draft labels rather than lab proof. No laboratory report, testing house or analytical result was published to us behind either reference, and we have published no test data because there is none to publish. To match a number on your bottle to an order, call the order desk on +1 (925) 231-0148 with your order ID.
| Reference | Value | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Lot | GLY-26/GO-2503 | A draft label reference. No production record was published to us |
| Certificate | GLY-2503-26-GO | A draft label reference. No certificate of analysis was published to us |
| Testing laboratory | Not published | No laboratory is named anywhere in the material |
| Test date | Not published | |
| What was tested | Not published | No assay, no potency result, no contaminant screen |
| Expiry / best before | Not printed | Check the base of your own bottle |
On their own, nothing about what is in the bottle.
A lot number is a production reference. It lets a manufacturer trace a batch and, if something goes wrong, recall it. That is genuinely useful and it is not a quality claim.
A certificate of analysis is a different object entirely: a laboratory document stating what was tested, by whom, on what date, with what result. A reference number that looks like a certificate number is not a certificate. We were given a reference and no document.
The brief is unusually candid about this, and the candour is worth quoting: it says the lot and the certificate reference are draft labels, not lab proof. We have taken it at its word and published no test data, because there is none.
We will not produce a certificate of analysis, name a laboratory, or print a test result that nobody gave us. A fabricated lab document is worse than no document, because it converts a gap into a false reassurance.
The brief says the lot and best-before appear on the base of the bottle when the bottle shows them. That is the only place your own batch reference will be.
This is the one we would most like to hear about. If your bottle carries a Supplement Facts panel, photograph it and send it to [email protected]. We will publish it and correct this site.
The label says do not use if the safety seal is damaged or missing. If it is, photograph it and call before you open the bottle.
+1 (925) 231-0148 with your order ID. That desk can connect a bottle to a purchase; this website cannot.
the order desk, printed on the label for Gex Corporation LLP in Ogden, Utah. Different company, different job — product questions rather than orders.
The listing carries ten marks. Exactly one of them has a number behind it that we could confirm, and exactly one of them is supported by the printed panel. They are not the same badge.
The money-back guarantee is the one with a number: 60 days from purchase, given in the brief, and the only guarantee we can state.
There is no second badge we can support. The vegetarian mark would be the easiest to confirm on any normal product — a capsule is vegetarian or not according to its shell — and no other-ingredients line was published, so the shell material is unknown.
The rest — FDA-registered facility, GMP certified, made in the USA, GMO free, gluten free, dairy free, natural ingredients, doctor formulated — have no certificate, no certifying body and no named laboratory behind them in anything we were given. Several are plausible. None is verified, and the doctor-formulated one names no doctor at all.
The best-evidenced mark in the set, because a number sits behind it: 60 days from purchase, per the brief, unless the sales page prints a longer window. A purchase policy rather than a medical promise, and the only claim here a buyer can act on.
A second gold roundel for the same policy in a different wording. Two graphics agreeing on one window is worth noting, because on several products this desk has reviewed the badges disagreed with each other.
This one is also printed on the label itself, which is unusual and slightly better practice than a listing-only badge. It still means only that the factory filed a registration. The FDA “does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed”, and no facility or registration number is given here to look up.
A second FDA-facility graphic in the same pack, in a different style. Neither carries a registration number or a facility name, so neither can be checked.
Good Manufacturing Practice governs how a product is made, recorded, traced and kept clean. It is a statement about process, not contents: a GMP-compliant facility can lawfully bottle 0.7 micrograms of chromium, because the amount is not a GMP question. No certifying body is named.
A sourcing claim about raw materials, with no certifying body named and no certificate supplied.
<i>Natural</i> has no regulatory definition for a dietary supplement. This bottle contains chromium picolinate, a manufactured mineral complex, plus sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate and a 97% steviol glycoside isolate. All are ordinary and all are disclosed. The roundel is a mood rather than a specification.
The badge is unqualified; <b>the label is not</b>. The printed wording on the bottle is <i>Made in the USA with globally sourced ingredients</i>, which is the correct qualified construction the FTC describes. Where the badge and the label differ, the label governs, and here the label is the better of the two.
The five supports carried through from the sales page onto the listing: healthy insulin function, balanced blood sugar levels, carbohydrate metabolism, healthy weight and overall metabolic health. Each is assessed one at a time on our claims page.
One of five small marks used beside the supports on the listing artwork. Decoration rather than evidence.
Do not take it. Photograph the seal, the panel and the base of the bottle, then call the order desk on +1 (925) 231-0148 with the order ID. A bottle that does not match the panel published here is a question for the distributor on the order desk as well.
Because a lot number and a certificate reference look like evidence, and a reader who sees them on a listing deserves to know what sits behind them. On this product the honest answer is a pair of reference strings and no laboratory document, and the material we were given says so itself.
A laboratory name and address. A date. A sample identifier that ties the document to a specific batch. A list of what was tested for. The method used for each test. The result of each test, with units. And a signature or an authorising name.
None of those exists in anything we were given for this product. What we have is a Lab Tested mark with a microscope icon on the label, a reference string of the shape a certificate number takes, SOD-6271-26-SO, and a note in the same document describing it as a draft label rather than lab proof.
That note is unusually honest and we have taken it at face value. The alternative — printing the reference on a page under a heading like Lab Verified — would convert an absence of evidence into the appearance of evidence, which is the single most common dishonesty in this category.
If a certificate is ever published for this product, this page will carry it, with the laboratory named and the date printed. Until then this page carries the honest version, which is shorter and less impressive.
The brief gives lot GLY-26/GO-2503 and a certificate reference GLY-2503-26-GO, and the same document describes both as draft labels rather than lab proof. We have not been shown a certificate of analysis, so we treat those as references rather than evidence.
On the base of the bottle where the bottle carries one, not on the printed wrap. Check the bottle you receive.
No dietary supplement is. The FDA “does not have the authority to approve dietary supplements before they are marketed”. The label says the product has been manufactured in an FDA <i>registered</i> facility, which means the factory filed an administrative registration. It is not an inspection result and it is not an endorsement, and no facility or number is given to look up.
Not stated. The label says <i>distributed by</i> Instituto Experience of Lakeland, Florida, which identifies a distributor rather than a manufacturer. No facility is named anywhere.
+1 (925) 231-0148 for anything to do with an order — tracking, changes, refunds. The website email address, [email protected], cannot see orders; it is for pages, typos, privacy and press. The +1 (507) number printed on the bottle belongs to the distributor, not to this desk.
One bottle is 60 servings of 1 ml, so a bottle is sixty days at one dropper or thirty at two. The 60-day guarantee runs from purchase, not from delivery, and the price is shown at checkout.
Order NowRead the label firstNo price was published to us. We print no figure we have not seen ourselves. · 60-day guarantee from purchase · Not for under 18, pregnancy or nursing