How these notes are written
Every page in this file is assembled the same way, from the same three kinds of public document. This page sets out that method so a reader can reproduce any note, or contradict one.
01The three inputs
Notes are built from listing pages, certificates of analysis, and public forum threads. Nothing else is used. No supplier is contacted, no account is created to see a page behind a login, and no private correspondence is quoted. That constraint keeps the method reproducible: a reader can open the same three sources and check the sentence they doubt.
Listing pages are read for the exact variant rather than the family name, because pack sizes, declared mass and even the descriptive words differ between variants. Certificates are read against the listing they sit beside, since the interesting question is usually whether the batch reference matches. Threads are read widely enough to separate a recurring description from a single post.
02What gets excluded, and why
Four kinds of material are excluded on principle. Personal claims about the people behind these businesses, including health and family matters, never appear. Unverified allegations about manufacturing or intent never appear. Any narrative that would identify a private individual never appears. And any statement that amounts to guidance for use in a person never appears, regardless of how it is framed.
The exclusions are not squeamishness. Each of them would add heat without adding checkability, and a file that trades in heat stops being useful the first time it is wrong. The narrower scope is what makes the rest of the pages defensible.
03Corrections and revisions
A correction is accepted when it arrives with something checkable: a current listing page, a certificate, a terms page, a dated screenshot. A correction that amounts to a disagreement about tone is read and usually not acted on. Where a correction changes a sentence, the revision date moves and the change is described on this page's log rather than silently patched.
Pages carry revision dates because listings change quietly. A note that was accurate in the spring can be misleading by winter, and the date is the reader's only signal about which version they are holding.
04Independence, stated plainly
No supplier pays for coverage, supplies review material, or has any influence over a note. There is no referral parameter in any outbound address on this site. The single sponsored element is a marked banner that routes to an independent listing sheet; it is not tied to any page's conclusions and no note is written to support it.
If that changes, this page changes first. A reading file that quietly acquires a commercial interest is worth less than one that never had the pretence of independence. The one part of the site kept deliberately low-profile is the listing records archive, which reproduces third-party listing lines and is linked from the full index rather than from the menu.