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
Accreditation is method-specific. Heavy metals by ICP-MS counts only if that method appears on the lab's 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 by its accreditation body.
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. Consumers and retailers still have almost no way to check.
Analyte puts sealed samples in front of independently accredited labs and translates their reports for the people buying the product. We publish favorable and unfavorable findings the same way.
Matthew Shapiro · founder, Analyte · biochemist, trained at Tufts
How we protect that independence.
ON THE RECORD
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Brands pay for the test, never the result
Analyte charges the same whether a batch passes or raises a flag.
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.
Bring the hard questions. Matthew answers his own email.
