How this site is funded
researchuseonlypeps is free to read and makes no money. It points readers to vendors it has reviewed and rates well, and nothing more. This page explains the one connection you should know about, so you can weigh what you read here accordingly.
We are a publisher, not a seller
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No link on this site earns anything
No outbound link here pays a commission, a referral fee, or a per-click amount, and no vendor pays to be listed, scored, or placed. You never pay more because you arrived through a link on this site, and you are never required to use one.
We link the storefront of every vendor in the directory whose store we could verify was live, because a review that names a vendor and then refuses to say where to find it is not much of a review. Where we link nothing, the vendor page says why. Every one of those links carries the same rel value telling search engines it is not an editorial endorsement, and opens on the vendor's own domain in a new tab.
The one connection you should know about
The people who publish this site are paid by one vendor in the directory for marketing work. That payment is for that work, not for anything on this site, and it is a closer relationship than an ordinary link. We state it here rather than leaving you to infer it. Read what we publish with that in mind, and check the certificates yourself rather than taking a number on trust, including ours.
What that connection cannot change
The directory is ordered by composite score descending and by nothing else: there is no pin, no boost, and no commercial tier in the code that builds that list. Whoever scores highest on the rubric is first, and the day that stops being true, the function that orders the list is what has to change.
- It cannot change a vendor score, a rubric dimension, a rank, or a position in the directory.
- It does not give any vendor advance review of a review before it publishes.
- It cannot remove or soften a safety alert.
- It cannot suppress a competing vendor, a competing product, or an unfavourable analytical result.
- It cannot move a score quietly. Every change to a composite is dated and published with the evidence behind it on the vendor's own page.
Vendor scores are produced against the published rubric described in our editorial standards, from documentation we can see. The vendor we do marketing work for is scored on the same evidence as every other vendor, and is downgraded on the same evidence.
We also publish company-reported news for some vendors, such as an event or press coverage. Those items are labelled as the company's own claims, are kept separate from the rubric, and cannot move a score. Where we have verified something ourselves, we say which part we verified.
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No professional relationship
Nothing on this site is medical, veterinary, legal, or regulatory advice, and reading it does not create a professional relationship of any kind. All materials referenced here are for in-vitro laboratory research use only and are not for diagnostic, therapeutic, veterinary, or human use.
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