A lot number identifies a production run. If something goes wrong with that run — a contamination, a mislabelling, an ingredient that was not what the supplier said — it is what makes it possible to find every bottle from that run and recall them. That is a real function, and it is the whole of it.
Here it is worth more than usual, and that deserves saying before the criticism. A recall needs somebody to issue it, and this bottle names that somebody: Blood Pril, Lakeland FL, 33804, on +1 (507) 448-8190. A lot code on a bottle that names nobody is a string with no addressee, and most packs this desk reads do not supply that second half.
What a lot number does not do is test anything. It cannot tell you how much of each of the three blend ingredients is in a capsule, and nor could anything here: the panel declares one line, Proprietary Blend 500 mg, with no weight against any of them. A certificate could confirm the 500 mg total. It could not confirm a split that was never published.
A certificate of analysis would do the rest of that job, and it is the one we do not have. A real one names the laboratory, the date, the method and the result for each thing tested. Without it, a CoA reference is a filing code for a document nobody has shown us.
There is a second absence, and most pages would not admit to it. We have not seen either string on the product. A lot code and a best-before go on the base of the bottle, and no photograph of the base was supplied. So BP-26/BL-4631 is a string in a brief rather than something read off a bottle.
And no expiry is published anywhere. Not on the wrap, not in the brief, not in the listing artwork. The bottle does carry a storage instruction — keep away from heat, light, and humidity — which is not a date. A six-bottle pack is 360 days, so the last bottle is opened roughly ten months after the order.
A reference with no certificate and no photograph behind it is exactly as good as no reference, so we will not print the two codes with a green tick.
What we would publishA certificate of analysis naming a laboratory, a date, a method and a result, reproduced in full including anything that did not flatter the product. A photograph of the base would go up next to it. Send us either and it is on this page the same week.