Answerable to no brand.
An independent supplement-verification company. We coordinate testing through accredited labs and publish exactly what they find.
What ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation actually means.
ISO/IEC 17025
THE STANDARD WE RELY ON
The international standard for a testing lab's technical competence.
- GRANTED BY
- An independent accreditation body — A2LA, ANAB, or PJLA. No lab can award it to itself.
- SCOPE
- Granted per method, time-bound, and reassessed on a schedule.
- DISTINCT FROM
- FDA registration and cGMP (21 CFR 111) — different systems making different claims.
WHAT IT CERTIFIES
Competence, method by method
The lab can correctly run a specific test — say, heavy metals by ICP-MS — and has proven it for every method on its accredited scope.
Traceable measurement
Results trace through an unbroken chain of calibration back to reference materials and SI units, so a number here means the same thing anywhere.
Outside scrutiny
The lab is proficiency-tested against its peers and periodically reassessed — never by itself, never by its clients.
WHAT IT DOES NOT
Endorse a product
It qualifies the lab, not the product. Accreditation says nothing about whether a supplement is safe or worth buying.
Cover every test
A lab can be accredited for one method and not another. The certificate counts only for what it actually lists.
Apply to Analyte
We are not an accredited testing lab and never claim to be. We coordinate the labs that measure, then interpret and publish what they find.
I trained as a biochemist. It leaves you with one reflex: don't trust a claim you haven't measured.
A supplement label is a stack of promises, printed by the party that profits when you believe them. Most are probably kept. But "probably" shouldn't be the standard for something people swallow every day — and almost nobody downstream has the instruments to check.
Analyte closes that gap. We put samples in front of independently accredited labs, then explain what the numbers mean in plain language. The independence isn't a feature; it's the reason the work means anything. A result you can buy isn't a result.
Matthew Shapiro · founder, Analyte · biochemist, trained at Tufts
Three commitments that keep us independent.
ON THE RECORD
01 — 03
Brands pay for the test, never the result
The fee buys the measurement of a batch — never the outcome. A favorable result is not for sale, at any price.
Every result publishes, good or bad
A finding that reflects poorly on a product gets reported with the same care as one that reflects well. We don't cherry-pick which results go public.
The public library keeps nothing buried
Every result lives in an open, searchable archive, readable whether you sell the product or just take it. Nothing gets quietly retracted once it's public.
We're an early company: these are commitments, not yet a track record. Hold us to them.
MATTHEW SHAPIRO · FOUNDER
Skeptical is the right way to arrive.
Whether you run a lab, run a brand, or just read labels closely, ask the hard questions. Matthew answers his own email.
