"lab tested" is a sticker, not a fact. tested by who, for what, which batch. the single question that sorts real sellers from copywriters fast: "can you send the batch-matched CoA from the named lab for the jar im actually buying". the good ones say yep. the rest get busy all of a sudden
this is the kind of one liner i can actually remember in the moment, ta
honestly "lab tested" with no named lab is the tell on its own. if the lab were real theyd name it, naming it costs nothing. the vagueness is the choice
worth stressing "named" carries the weight. "tested by an accredited European laboratory" is not a name, its a vibe. you want something you can actually look up.
and batch-matched is the bit that does the filtering. plenty can produce *a* CoA. far fewer can produce one whose sample id matches the lot on the jar in your hand