Vanguard Laboratory
Olympic Analytical, LLC (DBA Vanguard Laboratory) · United States
Snapshot
- Legal entity
- Olympic Analytical, LLC (DBA Vanguard Laboratory)
- Location
- Olympia, WA
- Founded
- Family-owned. The Vanguard peptide-testing brand is new, but the underlying Olympic Analytical lab has been in business since 2021.
- Key people
- Dustin Newman, Laboratory Director — AFDO-recognized Process Authority (acidified / low-acid foods, thermal processing).
- Languages
- English
- Time zone
- US Pacific
- Turnaround
~5 business days
Purity / quantity 5–8 business days. Sterility ~15 days. Rush options available.
Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited via A2LA (Cert No. 6377.01)
Independently verifiable: ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation through the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), Certificate No. 6377.01 (issued 22 Dec 2025, cycle valid to ~30 Sep 2027). Also accredited by the Washington State Department of Ecology and registered with the WA Department of Health for drugs and controlled substances. HPLC methods validated to USP <1225>. Of our three partner labs, Vanguard is the only one with an independently verifiable ISO 17025 accreditation.
Equipment & methods
HPLC (USP <1225>-validated) for purity and quantity; sterility, endotoxin, ICP-MS-class heavy-metal, residual-solvent, microbiological, pesticide, and mycotoxin screening; environmental, food, and water analyses. PhD chemists review results. Method development for novel products is available.
Sample prep & shipping
Accepts any carrier for shipping. It's required to either label your vials with the lot number or print your Vanguard Laboratory order form and pack it with your sample shipment.
Interviews
- Top 3 Major Third-Party Testing Labs for Peptides
YouTube Shorts (multi-lab overview)
Short overview that includes Vanguard. We are working on scheduling a dedicated long-form interview.