How to Verify a Freedom Diagnostics COA: The Search Code Lookup

Freedom Diagnostics Testing is a peptide-testing laboratory in Franklin, Tennessee, whose website describes itself as established in 2023. It publishes a public archive of the certificates it issues, and any of them can be looked up on the laboratory's own site. Freedom's system works differently from a portal that rebuilds the record field by field. Its lookup hands you the laboratory's own copy of the certificate PDF, so the check is a document-to-document comparison. We don't use Freedom Diagnostics for our own lots (ours are tested by ILS Laboratories). This is a lab-specific guide for anyone holding a Freedom certificate.

The lookup, step by step

1. Go to freedomdiagnosticstesting.com yourself and open COA Lookup from the menu. Don't start from a lookup link the seller gave you.
2. Find the Search Code on your certificate. The laboratory says it sits in the table at the top right of the certificate, in a field labeled exactly "Search Code".
3. Enter it and choose Look up. Codes are not case-sensitive. Remove any spaces.
4. If the document exists, the page reports that it was found and offers a button that opens the PDF. Check where the PDF opens: it should be served from the laboratory's own domain, freedomdiagnosticstesting.com.
5. If nothing is found, the page asks you to check the code and contact the laboratory if the problem persists.

The same page also lets you search by accession number or by company name.

How the Search Code is built, and why it matters

Freedom's lookup page explains that the Search Code is always the first four characters of the company name followed by the accession number. The lab's own example is a four-letter prefix followed by a ten-digit accession number. This has three practical consequences.

• The prefix should match the company on the certificate. The company is the laboratory's client, the party that submitted the sample. If the first four characters don't correspond to the company named on the document, ask why.
• The client isn't always the seller. A certificate commissioned by a manufacturer, a distributor or a group of buyers carries that party's name, not the name of the shop selling you the vial. That may be perfectly legitimate, but it changes what the certificate tells you about the shop's stock.
• The code is a lookup key, not a secret. Because it is built from a company name and a number printed on the certificate, its value doesn't come from being hard to guess. It comes from the fact that the document you retrieve is served by the laboratory, not by the seller. That is why steps 1 and 4 above matter.

Fields to compare

You now have two PDFs: the one you were given and the laboratory's copy. Compare them line by line:

• Company name, accession number and Search Code.
• Compound and labeled amount.
• Lot or batch number. This must also match the label on your vial (see lot and batch traceability).
• Purity by HPLC, to the digit.
• Identity. The laboratory states that its certificates pair HPLC purity with LC-MS identity, which confirms the compound by molecular mass.
• Net content.
• Every additional panel the certificate lists: endotoxin, sterility by PCR, heavy metals, fentanyl screen, pH.
• The vial photo. Freedom's service list says a photo of the submitted vial is shown on the certificate. Check that it is the same vial image on both copies, and compare its label with the product you received.
• Dates.

Any difference between the two copies is the finding. Where they disagree, rely on the laboratory's copy.

Pitfalls specific to Freedom certificates

Panels are chosen per sample

The laboratory's service page says clients choose any combination of analyses for each sample. A certificate that shows only purity and identity hasn't tested endotoxin, sterility or metals. A missing row is not a pass. It means the test wasn't ordered. Read the certificate for what it includes, not for what a seller's product page implies.

Conformity is the lot-consistency test

Freedom offers a conformity analysis, which tests additional vials from the same lot to confirm they match. A single-vial certificate describes one vial. If a seller claims its whole lot is consistent, a conformity result is the evidence that addresses that claim.

How the sample was chosen isn't shown on the lookup

The lookup confirms that the laboratory issued the document. It can't tell you whether the submitted vial was chosen at random from the lot or picked by the seller. Ask the seller how the sample was selected.

Accreditation wording

The lookup page says the laboratory is compliant with ISO 9001 quality management principles and Good Laboratory Practice quality standard principles. Following a set of principles is not the same as holding an accreditation for specific test methods from an accreditation body. On the pages we reviewed, we found no ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation claim. If a seller calls a Freedom certificate accredited, ask for the accreditation body and certificate number, and confirm them with that body. There's more on this in what third-party testing actually means.

If the lookup finds nothing

Re-enter the code without spaces. Try the accession number on its own, then the company name. If none of them resolves, ask the seller for the certificate as issued, and contact the laboratory through its own site. A certificate the issuing laboratory can't find is the most serious item in COA red flags.

The general method

This lookup is Freedom's version of a workflow that applies to every laboratory: reach the lab independently, retrieve its record, and compare it field by field with the copy you hold. The vendor-neutral version is how to verify any COA with the issuing laboratory. Once a certificate checks out, how to read a COA explains what each result does and doesn't establish.

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