Verification
Dentanol lot and certificate
What a lot number is for, what a Certificate of Analysis would actually contain, what this desk was given instead, and what a buyer can establish alone in a minute with the bottle in hand.
The pack supplied a lot reference of DEN-26/GO-4795 and a certificate reference of DEN-4795-26-GO. Both are draft references from a seller pack. Neither is laboratory proof of anything. No Certificate of Analysis document reached this desk, no testing laboratory is named anywhere in the material, and no best-before date was legible on any image supplied.
What a lot number is
A lot, or batch, is a quantity of product made in one production run from one set of raw materials. The lot number printed on a bottle is the thread that ties that specific bottle back to that run: the materials that went into it, the tests performed on it, and the date it was made.
It is the single most useful identifier on any supplement bottle, and it is more useful than the brand name. Recalls are issued by lot, not by product. If a question ever arises about what is inside the tablets you are holding, the lot number is the only way anybody can answer it, and without it the answer is necessarily about some other bottle.
It is also the thing a Certificate of Analysis is issued against. A certificate for lot A tells you nothing whatever about lot B, which is why a company publishing a single undated certificate on a web page is not publishing very much. The document and the number on your bottle have to match, or the document is decorative.
The references on this page are not lab results
DEN-26/GO-4795 and DEN-4795-26-GO were supplied as draft references in a marketing pack. They look like real codes because they are formatted like real codes. They are printed here labelled rather than hidden, because a buyer who meets them elsewhere should know exactly what they are: sample text, not laboratory output.
What a Certificate of Analysis would contain
A genuine CoA is a laboratory document, issued against a named lot, by a laboratory willing to put its name on the result. At minimum it would carry:
- The name of the testing laboratory, and its accreditation.
- The lot number it applies to, and the date the sample was received.
- The tests performed, each with a method reference.
- Identity — that each ingredient is the substance the label names, and for a botanical, the species and the plant part.
- Potency — how much of each declared ingredient is actually present, set against the amount printed on the panel.
- Heavy metals — lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury, each against a stated limit.
- Microbiology — total plate count, yeast and mould, and specified pathogens.
- A signature and a date.
Two of those lines cannot even be written for this product, and that is the unusual part. Identity testing confirms that what is in the tablet is what the label says; potency testing confirms how much of it there is. Both tests take the label as their reference document. Here there is no ingredient list and no amount in any unit, so there is nothing for either test to be checked against.
The heavy metals and microbiology sections would still be meaningful, because those are limits rather than comparisons. They are also the two sections a buyer is least equipped to interpret, and neither exists here either: what exists is a reference code with no document behind it, which is the supplement equivalent of a receipt number with no receipt.
The problem underneath all of it
Batch verification rests on an assumption so ordinary that nobody states it: that you already know what is supposed to be in the batch.
Every check on this page is a comparison. A lot number ties a bottle to a production run so that the run’s records can be read against the label. A certificate reports measured amounts so they can be set beside declared amounts. An identity test confirms a named substance. Remove the label and the whole apparatus has nothing to hold on to: you can still confirm that a bottle came from a particular run, and you still cannot say whether that run produced what it was meant to, because nobody has said what it was meant to produce.
On Dentanol nobody has said. There is no Supplement Facts panel, no ingredient is named anywhere — not on the bottle, not in the marketing, not in the seller pack — and no amount is given in any unit. The nearest thing to a disclosure is a circular graphic of eight uncaptioned photographs of plants, and a photograph is not a specification.
So the honest statement of this page is that verification here would be premature rather than difficult. The document to ask for first is not the certificate. It is the panel, and the where-to-buy page sets out exactly how to ask for it. A certificate for a formula nobody has published would be a page of numbers with no second column.
What we were actually given
| Item | What was supplied | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Lot reference | DEN-26/GO-4795 | Draft reference from a seller pack. Not lab proof |
| Certificate reference | DEN-4795-26-GO | Draft reference from a seller pack. No document accompanies it |
| Certificate of Analysis document | — | Not supplied. Nothing reached this desk |
| Testing laboratory name | — | Not supplied. No laboratory is named anywhere |
| Identity confirmation for any ingredient | — | Not possible. No ingredient is named to confirm |
| Potency confirmation for any amount | — | Not possible. No amount is declared to measure against |
| Heavy metal results | — | Not supplied |
| Microbiological results | — | Not supplied |
| Best-before date | — | not legible on the images supplied |
| Manufacturer or packer name | — | Not supplied. Not printed on anything supplied to this desk |
| GMP or facility registration mark | — | Not supplied. Neither mark was included in the three that were |
Eleven rows, two of which contain anything at all, and both of those two are references rather than results. Two more are marked not possible rather than not supplied, which is a different and worse category: they describe tests that cannot be specified until somebody publishes a label.
None of this is evidence of wrongdoing and it is not unusual for a direct-to-consumer supplement. It is an absence, and the rule on this site is that an absence gets printed rather than dressed up.
Checking the bottle in front of you
There is no online lot-verification tool for this product and no database a buyer can query. This section is about what you can establish yourself, in about a minute, with nothing but the bottle.
Find the lot code and photograph it
Usually ink-stamped on the base or near the edge of the label. Photograph it before you open anything. Whatever is printed there is the real lot number; the reference on this page is not.
Find the best-before date, and photograph that too
Worth knowing before you look: not legible on the images supplied, so this site cannot tell you what format to expect or where it sits. Whatever is on your bottle is the only version of that fact that exists.
Look for a Supplement Facts panel
On the back or the side. No panel appeared on any image, graphic or document supplied to this desk. If your bottle carries one, you are holding the document this whole site is about — read it before you chew anything, and photograph it.
Look for an ingredient list and an allergen statement
Same surfaces, same procedure. A chewable tablet is a sweetened, flavoured, compressed food; the excipients that make it chewable are exactly what an allergic buyer needs named.
Count the tablets
Thirty. It is the one quantity the front of the bottle states, it is one of only two label statements this product supplies, and it is the only thing about the contents you can verify without a laboratory.
Call if anything differs from this site
+1 (302) 200-3480, with your lot number and a photograph. Quote the order ID as well — it is the only identifier that connects a parcel to a purchase.
Four of those six are things a buyer can complete alone. Two of them — the panel and the ingredient list — are questions this desk could not answer and you can. If what arrives differs from what is described here in either direction, we would like to know: [email protected].
What to ask for, if you want to ask
Any buyer is entitled to ask a seller for product information, and the quality of the answer is itself a data point. Five questions, in descending order of usefulness — and note that the certificate is fourth rather than first.
- “Can you email me the Supplement Facts panel for this product?” Everything else on this page depends on it. Until it exists there is nothing for a certificate to certify.
- “What is the serving size, and how many tablets a day?” Not published anywhere. The pack’s entire instruction is “Follow the label. Confirm the pack you received.” and no label carrying a direction was supplied to us.
- “Is there an allergen statement?” Ask it separately from the ingredient list, because it is a separate line and the more important one if you have an allergy.
- “Can you send me the Certificate of Analysis for the lot printed on my bottle?” Naming your lot is what makes this a real request rather than a rhetorical one.
- “Which laboratory performed the testing?” A named, accredited laboratory is a checkable fact. “A third-party lab” is a phrase, and it is the answer to watch for.
The order desk is +1 (302) 200-3480 — a line the pack describes as a payment processor’s default order desk, and the only telephone number published. There is no sales email: not published — the pack routes written order queries to the sales contact page. If any of those five is answered, this page will be updated to say so. If none of them is, that is an answer too, and it is worth having before the sixty-day window runs out rather than after.
Ask for the panel before you pay
Thirty chewable tablets, a published price to the cent, and a 60-day money-back window. What is not published is the Supplement Facts panel, the ingredient list, the serving size and the allergen statement. The order desk can be asked for all four in writing, and that request costs nothing.
60-day window · Questions first? Call +1 (302) 200-3480