How to Verify an Ethos Analytics COA — Sample IDs, the Portal and the PJLA Scope

Ethos Analytics is an analytical testing laboratory at 3020 E Camelback Road in Phoenix, Arizona. Most of its work is supplements, cosmetics, food and botanicals, and it also offers peptide purity and quantitation. Its certificates can be checked through a lookup portal on the laboratory's own site, ethosanalytics.io. This page covers that lookup, which fields to compare, and what the laboratory's accreditation covers.

Our own lots are tested by ILS Laboratories, not Ethos Analytics. This page is for anyone holding an Ethos certificate from any seller.

The two values you need

Ethos verifies a certificate with two values, both printed near the top of the certificate:

• Company. This is the name after "Customer:" in the upper-left of the certificate. It is the organization that submitted the sample to the laboratory.
• EA Sample ID. This is the laboratory's own identifier for the sample, in a format like 26EA1001-017.

The portal's instruction is to "enter the Company name and Ethos Sample ID shown on your Certificate of Analysis to verify the report and view the original laboratory-issued CoA." Enter both exactly as printed.

The lookup, step by step

1. Go to the portal yourself at ethosanalytics.io/verify-coa. Type the domain, or start from the laboratory's homepage. Don't follow a link on a seller's page.
2. Enter the Company and EA Sample ID from the certificate you were given.
3. Read the result. A match shows "Verified" with the company, sample ID, product name and completion date. It also gives you the original laboratory-issued certificate as a PDF to open or download. The portal states that every certificate in it is tied to an original, unaltered laboratory-issued PDF.
4. If nothing is found, the portal says it could not locate a certificate matching that company and sample ID. It asks you to check both values and points to verify@ethosanalytics.io for help.

What to compare

Ethos's record is the laboratory's own copy of the certificate, so the check is a comparison of two documents. Put the seller's copy beside the laboratory's PDF:

• The header block: Customer, EA Sample ID, Sample Name, Sample Type, Batch/Lot, Date Received and Date Completed. The Batch/Lot line is the one that ties the paper to your vial. A real certificate for a different lot is not evidence about yours. For more on why, see lot and batch traceability.
• The summary table: each analysis type, its method and the date it was tested. A test that appears on one copy and not on the other is a discrepancy.
• The status column next to the results. On the Ethos certificates we opened from the portal, the summary table's status reads "Complete" for some analyses and "Pass" for others. "Complete" means the test was run; it is not a verdict. Read the result and specification lines underneath.
• Every value and its units. The measured result, the specification and the limits should be identical down to the decimal place.
• The signatory and date at the foot of each page.

Pitfalls specific to Ethos

The company name may not be the brand on your vial. "Customer" is whoever sent the sample in: the seller, a manufacturer, or a different business entirely. A certificate that verifies under another company's name proves that company had that sample tested, not that it came from the material you bought. Ask the seller to explain the link.

Identity on these certificates is chromatographic. The certificates we opened state that identity was confirmed "by retention time concordance with a certified reference standard, per USP <621>". That is an HPLC retention-time match, not mass spectrometry. It is the same class of identity test as on our own ILS certificates, and its limits are the same. See HPLC purity vs identity testing.

The ISO line in the footer is not a statement of scope. Each page we opened carries a footer saying the testing procedures, equipment calibration and maintenance are "in accordance with ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standards." That describes the laboratory's quality system. It does not mark which of the tests on the page fall within the laboratory's accreditation, and the certificates we opened did not flag individual tests as accredited or not. The next section answers that question.

Use the accreditor's copy of the certificate, not the laboratory's. The certificate PDF linked from the laboratory's site header shows only page 1 of 6, so the scope supplement isn't included. The laboratory's peptide page cites "Acc# 117798 Certificate# L24-311", while that header PDF carries certificate L26-225, issued March 2026. Certificate numbers change when a certificate is reissued, so the one that counts is the current certificate on the accreditor's own record.

What the accreditation covers, and what it doesn't

Ethos Analytics is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 by Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation (PJLA): accreditation 117798, certificate L26-225, in the fields of biological and chemical testing. It was first accredited on March 30, 2022; the current certificate was issued on March 12, 2026 and expires June 30, 2028. The certificate itself states that accreditation claims "shall apply solely to those activities identified in the related scope."

The scope supplement lists the materials tested as cosmetics, supplements, botanicals, raw materials and finished goods, plus extracts, oils and similar products for cannabinoid potency. The tests it lists are:

• microbiology (Petrifilm and PCR methods)
• heavy metals and other elements by ICP-MS
• flavonoids, vitamin C, caffeine, melatonin and cannabinoid potency by HPLC
• water activity, pH and shelf-life stability

Peptides do not appear as a material. Peptide purity, identity and content do not appear as tests, and neither do bacterial endotoxins or sterility.

So the peptide results on an Ethos certificate are outside the accredited scope. Even the heavy-metals line is not plainly inside it, because the scope names the method but not peptides as a material. That is not a finding that the results are wrong. It means no outside body has assessed those methods, on that material, at this laboratory. If accredited status matters to you, ask the laboratory which results on your certificate, if any, were issued under the accreditation.

The general method

Portals differ; the check doesn't: find the laboratory yourself, retrieve its record, compare. The vendor-agnostic version is in how to verify any COA with the issuing laboratory. For the wider list of warning signs, see peptide COA red flags. For reading the result table itself, see how to read a COA. And for what an independent test should mean, see what third-party testing means.

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