How to read a Janoshik report

A Janoshik report carries a task number and a unique key. Together they open Janoshik's own copy of the report at https://verify.janoshik.com/tests/, so anyone can compare a document with the laboratory's record. Each test on a report answers one question, whether that is identity, purity, amount or endotoxin, and none of them answers the others.

By Primara Labs team · Updated

What is on the report

  • Task number: the laboratory's reference for the job.
  • Sample and client: what the sample was submitted as, and who sent it in.
  • Tests requested: the line that sets the report's scope. Read it first.
  • Results: each figure with its unit, for the tests requested and nothing else.
  • Dates: when the sample was ordered, received and analysed.
  • Unique key: the code that, with the task number, opens the laboratory's copy.

Looking it up at the laboratory

The lookup address is the laboratory's base address followed by the task number, an underscore and the key: https://verify.janoshik.com/tests/task_key. Type the address yourself, or use the COA Reader, which builds it from the two values. Do not rely on a link supplied alongside a document: the point is to reach the laboratory's record by a route the document did not choose. If the address shows no record, or a record that differs from the document, the document is not the laboratory's report as issued.

What to compare

Compound
The sample name on the laboratory's record should be the compound on the vial, not a related one.
Batch
The batch on the record should match the batch printed on the vial in hand. A report for another batch says nothing about this one.
What the test covers
An endotoxin test says nothing about identity or purity; an identity test says nothing about endotoxin. Read the tests requested line.
The figure and its unit
The result should match what the seller quotes, in the same unit. Per vial, per mg and per mL are not interchangeable.
Dates
Check the order, receipt and analysis dates, and that the analysis is recent enough to describe the stock being sold.
Client name
The client on the record is who sent the sample. It tells you who commissioned the test, not who made the product.

What each result shows

Identity
An identity test checks that the substance is the compound named. Mass spectrometry measures the molecule's mass directly; an HPLC identity check compares how long the sample takes to pass through a column against a reference standard, which is weaker evidence on its own.
Purity
A purity result, usually by HPLC, is the share of the detected material that is the target compound. It does not by itself prove what that compound is, which is why purity is normally paired with an identity test.
Amount in the vial
A quantity result states how much of the compound the vial holds, usually in milligrams. A vial can be pure and still hold less than its label says.
Endotoxin
An endotoxin test, usually the LAL assay, measures bacterial endotoxin in endotoxin units. It does not show identity, amount or purity.

HPLC separates a sample into its components; the time a peak emerges identifies it against a reference standard and the peak's area gives its quantity, while a mass spectrometric detector adds the mass information that identifies a compound directly[2]. Endotoxin is measured with the bacterial endotoxins test, by gel clot, photometric or kinetic methods[1]. For what an endotoxin figure and its unit mean, read reading an endotoxin result rather than a summary here.

Primara Labs' published reports

Supplied for laboratory research use only. Not for human consumption. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and nothing here suggests an amount, a frequency or a protocol for any compound.

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Sources

  1. Pyrogen and Endotoxins Testing: Questions and Answers, guidance for industry. US Food and Drug Administration. Cited for the bacterial endotoxins test and its gel clot, photometric and kinetic methods. Checked 24 September 2026.
  2. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Basics. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (instrument manufacturer). Cited for how HPLC separates, identifies against a standard and quantifies; mass spectrometric detection. Checked 24 September 2026.
  3. Janoshik lookup page for task 234146, Retatrutide batch RETA-4728-A. Janoshik. Cited for the laboratory's own copy of Primara Labs' published report. Checked 23 September 2026.