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Your two-minute supplier check

The HPD Supplier-Vetting Standard

One objective, published standard for evaluating any peptide supplier — yours, ours, or one you've never heard of. Seven quick yes/no checks: four on whether the product is real, three on whether the supplier is honest about its legal lane. Run it in two minutes. Send the result to a colleague. Hold every supplier to the same bar.

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Why two layers, and why we publish it. Roll quality and legal status into one number and a great-looking product can hide a gray legal pathway — or a fully legal product gets dinged over a paperwork gap. We keep them separate so you see both. The criteria are public and we apply them the same way to every supplier we list, including the ones we work with. A standard quietly written to wave through a favorite vendor isn't a standard, and you'd see right through it. This one holds up to that scrutiny.

Your supplier check 0 of 7 answered

Is the product real?0%
Are they straight about the legal lane?0%

Seven yes/no checks. You want every box ticked in both rows. A blank in the second row is the red flag — that's where a supplier hides the legal risk.

Is the product real?

Four things a serious supplier — including a 503A pharmacy — can actually show you.

1An independent, third-party Certificate of Analysis for every lot — confirming identity and purity.
2Sterility and endotoxin testing on injectable products.
3Discloses who actually made the active ingredient (API), and the country it came from — the original manufacturer, not just the pharmacy or facility that re-bottled, reconstituted, or compounded it.
4Made under current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) quality systems, with the facility and country disclosed. US cGMP manufacturing is the gold standard — and most peptide suppliers, including many 503A pharmacies compounding from imported API, can't show it.

Are they straight about the legal lane?

This is the row that matters most — and the one a dishonest supplier fails. If a supplier won't be straight here, that's your answer.

5Is upfront about each product's true FDA status — and never lets a label like "503A-compounded" or "cGMP" imply a peptide is FDA-approved or on the 503A bulks list when it isn't. (BPC-157, NAD+, and the peptides removed from Category 2 are unapproved and unlisted no matter who makes them or how well; research-use-only product is labeled "not for human use.")
6Makes no efficacy, disease, or dosing claims, and leaves the human-use decision to you.
7Clear about what it is NOT — e.g. not a 503A pharmacy, and products are not FDA-approved, where that applies.
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How to read your two scores

A supplier worth working with clears a high bar on both layers. High quality with low transparency means a good product sold dishonestly — walk away. High transparency with low quality means an honest seller you still can't verify — also a pass. The combination is the point.

Note what the standard deliberately does not do: it does not reward a supplier for being on any particular legal pathway. A research-use-only importer and a 503A pharmacy are both scored on the same things — not on which lane they're in. Two points keep it level: a supplier must name who actually made the active ingredient (re-bottling imported API in a clean room is not "making it"), and "503A-compounded" describes who prepared a product, not whether the substance is FDA-approved. For an unapproved, unlisted peptide — BPC-157, NAD+, and the rest — both paths begin from the very same unapproved substance.

Use it on your own terms

The result is yours. This page has a permanent link and a one-page PDF, so you can keep it on file, share it with your medical director or a partner clinic, and re-run it on any supplier — the one you use now or one you're weighing — whenever you're evaluating. No login, nothing to buy, no one watching what you score.

Not legal advice. This standard is an educational tool, not a legal document. It does not establish what is lawful for your clinic or for any supplier — obtain your own legal counsel before acting on it.
Important — please read This standard is an educational framework for licensed providers to evaluate suppliers; it is not medical, legal, or regulatory advice, and a passing score is not a guarantee of legal compliance, product safety, or fitness for any use. Independent verification and your own professional and legal judgment are required. Regulatory status changes frequently — verify current federal and state status independently before acting.