Four locations, four meanings.
| Location | What it describes | What it does not establish alone |
|---|---|---|
| Business address | Where the named business says it operates or is registered. | Where chemical synthesis occurred. |
| Dispatch warehouse | Where an order is packed or sent. | Where its ingredients originated. |
| Testing laboratory | Where the reported analysis was performed. | Where the tested material was manufactured. |
| Processing facility | A specified production step, such as lyophilization. | The complete upstream origin of the molecule. |
Read the exact origin claim.
Under the FTC’s standard, an unqualified “Made in USA” claim requires substantiation that the product is all or virtually all US-made. A more limited statement about a production step is a different claim. Read the FTC’s guidance.
Do not stretch a statement about a single product, facility or step into an unsupported claim about an entire catalog. Ask which products the origin statement covers and what evidence supports it.
What our directory labels mean.
US manufacture claimed and China manufacture claimed attribute origin statements to the supplier. They are not independent factory-audit findings. Mixed origin claimed means the supplier describes more than one source region. US processing preserves a narrower statement without assuming the synthesis location.
Origin not established means this review did not establish the manufacturing origin. It does not mean China-made, low quality or unsafe. The same evidence standard applies to every brand.
Source
Federal Trade Commission: Complying with the Made in USA Standard. This primer explains public-origin claims; it does not assess a specific business’s legal compliance.