Is Axiom ISO 17025 accredited?
Axiom Analytics does not currently hold ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation in its own right. Physical instrument analysis is performed within Axiom's laboratory network, and where analysis is subcontracted the method is performed within that partner laboratory's published ISO/IEC 17025 scope of accreditation for that method, not merely at a laboratory that holds accreditation. Partner laboratory identities are not disclosed: samples are analysed under double-blind conditions, identified only by an internal lot ID. Axiom performs accession, chain of custody, analytical oversight and data review, and issues and is responsible for the certificate. The platform identifies method status beside each result; absent reopenable signed method/QMS evidence prevents PASS and creates a finding surfaced to our staff for resolution without closing controlled accession, observation entry, signing, or release. Software controls are not a substitute for physical laboratory qualification.
If you are not accredited, why should I trust a result?
Because the result is checkable and each reported layer carries its method status. Validated in-house and verified-compendial are historical/controlled vocabulary that require reopenable signed evidence; a research screen is not a validated PASS claim. Descriptive software records alone never authorize PASS. Unresolved qualification is surfaced to our staff for resolution and blocks neither signing nor release, while authenticated release authorization remains mandatory. Accreditation is separate: Axiom does not currently hold ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation in its own right, and where instrument analysis is subcontracted the method is performed within that partner laboratory's published ISO/IEC 17025 scope for that method. The full statement is printed on every certificate.
How do I verify an Axiom certificate?
Look the report ID up against the laboratory record rather than trusting the copy you were sent. Scan the QR on the certificate, enter the report ID at dev.axiomanalyticslab.com/verify, or call the public JSON endpoint. All three resolve to our servers, not to the vendor's, which is the property that makes verification worth anything.
Can I verify a certificate without trusting your website?
Yes. Every released certificate carries an Ed25519 signature over a SHA-384 digest of a canonical payload. We publish the exact canonicalisation and digest recipe and the public keys as a JWKS, so you can reproduce the digest and verify a certificate you already hold entirely offline with a standard crypto library. If our site were compromised tomorrow, that archived certificate would still be verifiable against keys you already have.
Can a vendor edit their certificate?
No. The certificate is signed over its own contents, so any change breaks the signature. A genuine correction goes through an amendment, which produces a new version, re-signs it, retains the superseded version, and records the reason. Authenticity and standing are two separate checks: a withdrawn certificate is still authentically signed, and our verification endpoint reports the signature and the state separately rather than collapsing them into one word.
Do you sell peptides, or take money from brands you test?
No. We own zero retail brands and zero inventory. We are a data-verification laboratory, and the only thing we sell is the analysis.
Are your certificates public?
A released certificate lives at its own public URL and anyone holding the report ID can retrieve and verify it. We deliberately do not publish a browsable directory or a per-brand index, because enumerating one client's whole testing history is that client's decision and not ours. The layout at dev.axiomanalyticslab.com/example-coa is explicitly illustrative, unsigned, and non-verifiable; it is not a laboratory record.
Can I put my certificate on my own product page?
Yes. There is an embeddable widget and a public API, so a certificate can render on your site while still resolving against our servers. That is the point: an image of a certificate hosted by the seller proves nothing, and an embed that resolves to the laboratory does.