Vendor audit record

Vigor Peptides

Website vigorpeptides.com

Audit slug vigor-peptides Audited Auditor agent-research-B

Grade DAvoid — thin evidence

Recent activity: No public COAs detected in this audit cycle. Score: D. Score: D (revised from B under recent-cadence-weighted rubric). Vigor Peptides has migrated from MZ Biolabs (2023) to Chromate (2024-2025), an upgrade in transparency since Chromate provides a public verify portal at chromate.org/verify with per-COA access codes and QR codes. Per-batch claims are credible: each product page carries a Chromate COA with a unique batch number (e.g., ZW1012 for BPC-157, LSCX24 for CJC-1295). However: (1) no central public COA index page (/coa returns 404; researchers must visit each product page); (2) most recent COA observed is from Feb 2025, over 14 months stale by audit date — fails the 90-day recency criterion for an A; (3) total COA count not directly enumerable without crawling all product pages. The lab is third-party with portal verification (criterion typically reserved for A), but missing recency/index. This earns a 'B — Strong but partial: Public COAs from a named third-party lab, but missing one of: every-batch coverage, lab portal verification, or recency.'

The take

Claiming current third-party testing while the newest evidence is 14 months old is a marketing problem before it is anything else.

Vigor Peptides made the right structural move and then stopped showing the work. By 2024, the vendor migrated its testing from MZ Biolabs to Chromate, a portal-verifiable third-party lab where any researcher can paste an access code such as VIGORM7W6617 into chromate.org/verify and re-check the report. Sampled product pages carry Chromate COAs with real batch numbers (ZW1012 on BPC-157, LSCX24 on CJC-1295) signed by Principal Chemist Lucas Weber. That is the architecture of a credible program. The execution does not match. The most recent observed COA is dated February 26, 2025, roughly 14 months before this audit, and zero COAs have been added in the last 90 days. There is no public COA index page. The /coa URL returns 404. Researchers have to crawl individual product pages to reconstruct what is being tested. Meanwhile, marketing copy across the site claims every vial is supported by a third-party COA and every product comes with a current batch certificate. Dated artifacts contradict the present-tense language.

  • Strength. Migration to Chromate gives Vigor portal-verifiable, batch-numbered COAs signed by a named principal chemist, the right baseline for an A-grade program.
  • Concern. The newest visible COA is from February 26, 2025, there is no central COA index, and the site still claims current per-batch testing in the present tense.

Key evidence: https://vigorpeptides.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/BPC-157-500mcg-Batch-ZW1012.png

COA program

Public COA page Yes
COA index URL —
Total COAs found —
Date range 2023-09-09 → 2025-02-26
Cadence No COAs found in this audit.
"Every batch" claimed? Yes
Volume vs. claim Site claims 'Every product comes with a current batch Certificate of Analysis' and 'Every vial is supported by a third-party Certificate of Analysis (COA).' COA images are embedded on individual product pages (no central /coa index — /coa returns 404). Sampled product pages show 1-2 COAs each: BPC-157 500mcg tablets has Chromate COA #22805 (sample 12/16/24, produced 02/05/25, batch ZW1012); CJC-1295 has both an old MZ Biolabs COA (lot SK01, 2023-09-09) and a newer Chromate COA #23154 (sample 02/24/25, batch LSCX24). Most recent COA seen dates to Feb 2025 — over 14 months old by audit date. No 2026 COAs observed. Per-batch claim is partially supported (vendor migrated to Chromate and adds new lots) but cadence is sparse and recency is poor.

Issuing labs & verifiability

  • Chromate (chromate.org) Verifiable — Recent COAs (BPC-157, CJC-1295) are issued by Chromate, a US-based analytical service for peptides/supplements. Each COA includes a COA number (#22805, #23154), an access code (e.g., VIGORM7W6617, VIGOR2GW53G2), a QR code, and a verification URL chromate.org/verify. Chromate's verify portal at https://chromate.org/verify is publicly accessible. Signed by Lucas Weber, Principal Chemist. This is a true third-party portal-verifiable lab (functional analog to Janoshik). Note: portal lookup was not exercised during this audit — verification mechanism is present and the URL resolves.
  • MZ Biolabs (Tucson, AZ — historical) Unverifiable — Older Vigor COAs from 2023 (e.g., CJC-1295 lot SK01, dated 2023-09-09) are on MZ Biolabs letterhead, signed by Ken Pendarvis ChE — the same lab template used by PureRawz. Vigor appears to have migrated their primary testing to Chromate by 2024-2025.

Authenticity

Bottle images match brand? Unknown / unable to verify
Bottle evidence Sampled COAs (BPC-157, CJC-1295) display analytical data and chromatograms only — no vial photographs are embedded. Product page hero images show Vigor-branded tablet bottles (e.g., BPC-157 500mcg tablets), but these are marketing photos and not in the COA itself. Vial-to-COA matching not directly confirmable.
COA template shared with other vendors? Yes

Red flags

No red flags recorded.

Domain history

Site accessible at audit time Yes
First Wayback snapshot 2023-07-21
Approximate domain age ~2 years 10 months (registered 2023-07-21 per WHOIS; site self-describes 'Since 2023')

Evidence trail

Note: this audit reflects the site as of . Re-audit dates and updated links are added as they are completed. Methodology: Read the rubric. Disputes: audit@realpeptidescores.com.