Manufacturing and testing
How every JellyTide lot is made and checked
JellyTide is produced in a United States facility registered with the Food and Drug Administration and operating under current Good Manufacturing Practice. Each finished lot is sampled and sent to Ashgrove Assay Partners, LLC, an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory, before any of it ships.
What cGMP actually governs
It is worth being precise, because the acronym gets used as a badge. Current Good Manufacturing Practice is a process standard. It governs how a facility documents its raw materials, controls cross-contamination, calibrates equipment, trains staff and keeps batch records. It does not evaluate whether a formula works, and it is not an endorsement of the product by any agency. A cGMP facility can make a useless supplement carefully. What the standard buys you is confidence that the bottle contains what the batch record says it contains, in the amount the record says.
The assays run on each lot
- Identity. Confirms each declared active is the material it claims to be, not a cheaper substitute.
- Potency by HPLC-UV. Measures the active fraction against the batch specification. Lot JT-26W-0834 returned 98.9%.
- Heavy metals by ICP-MS. Lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. Our internal ceiling is 0.6 parts per million total.
- Microbiology. Total aerobic count, yeast and mould, and screening for E. coli and Salmonella, against USP limits.
- Moisture and texture. Specific to gummies. A batch outside the moisture band goes sticky on the shelf.
- Allergen sweep. Confirms the gluten-free and dairy-free declarations on shared lines.
Sourcing and the parts we cannot see
Raw materials arrive with their own certificates from the supplier, and those certificates are verified against our own incoming testing rather than accepted on trust. The apple cider vinegar fraction and the BHB salts come from separate suppliers, which is normal and also means two supply chains to audit rather than one.
Here is the limit of what we can tell you. We are the distributor, not the manufacturer. We hold the batch records and the laboratory results for the lots we ship, and we publish the reference numbers for those. We do not own the plant, we do not set the formula, and we cannot compel the manufacturer to publish milligram amounts we have asked for more than once. Anyone in our position who implies otherwise is overselling their access.
If a lot fails
A lot that fails any assay does not ship. It is quarantined, retested from a second sample, and destroyed if the second result confirms the first. No lot has failed during the 2026 cycle. If one had, this page would say so and the lot number would be published here, because a testing page that has never reported a problem is either lucky or dishonest and you have no way to tell which.