Batch and label check
Checking a Prostacyl bottle against this page
The label document behind this whole site is excellent and it is not a photograph of a bottle. It still carries the printer’s instructions. This page explains what that means, what it does not mean, and gives you the one-minute check to run when the parcel arrives.
The supplied label wrap is pre-press artwork: along its foot is a grey rectangle reading AREA FOR BARCODE with the note that the background must be white and the barcode black. That is a production instruction, not retail printing. So read the panel on your own bottle against the nine rows transcribed on this site.
What pre-press artwork means, and what it does not
Start with what it does not mean, because that is where a reader is most likely to over-read. It does not mean the label is fake. It does not mean the panel is invented. It does not mean the product is different from what is described. None of those conclusions follows from a barcode placeholder, and none of them is drawn here.
What it does mean is narrow and worth holding. A pre-press proof is the file as it stood before it went to a press. Things change between a proof and a print run: a panel gets corrected, a mark gets added, a supplier changes a standardisation. A reader holding a bottle cannot tell from a proof whether any of that happened. So the transcription on this site is the best available description of this product, and it is a description of a document rather than of a bottle.
Say the credit plainly in the same breath, because it is the larger half of the story. This artwork carries a complete, fully quantified Supplement Facts panel: 9 rows, 9 printed amounts, no proprietary blend, species and plant parts named, two rows standardised, a correctly drafted caution block, three storage lines, the full FDA disclaimer, a named distributor and a properly qualified country-of-origin mark. That is more than every other product in this series provides, and the merchant’s own sales page omits it.
The strangest fact on this product
The document that would let a buyer check this product is the label, and the label is excellent. The place a buyer actually stands when they decide — the sales page — does not show it. So the panel exists, is complete, and is the one thing the buyer is not shown. It is transcribed in full here.
The nine rows to check on arrival
This is the practical core of the page. Hold the bottle, find the Supplement Facts panel, and read it against the nine rows below. They are transcribed exactly as printed on the artwork supplied, including the two standardisation percentages and the ** footnote marks. The serving above them is 2 capsules with 30 servings a container.
| Ingredient, as printed | Amount per serving | % Daily Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vitamin E (as dl-alpha tocopheryl acetate) | 25 mg | 167% |
| Vitamin B6 (as pyridoxine hydrochloride) | 13.8 mg | 812% |
| Saw Palmetto Extract (Serenoa repens) (fruit) | 300 mg | ** |
| Pygeum africanum Extract (bark) (std. to 3% phytosterols) | 200 mg | ** |
| Grape Seed Extract (Vitis vinifera) (seed) | 100 mg | ** |
| Pumpkin Seed Extract (Cucurbita moschata) (seed) | 100 mg | ** |
| Nettle Extract (leaf) | 50 mg | ** |
| Boron (as boron amino acid chelate) | 10 mg | ** |
| Lycopene 5% (Lycopersicum esculentum) (tomato) | 10 mg | ** |
Four of those nine rows are the ones worth reading twice, and all four are about percentages rather than typos. The Pygeum row prints 200 mg standardised to 3%, which is 6 mg of phytosterols. The Lycopene 5% row prints 10 mg of a preparation that is 5% lycopene, which is 0.5 mg of lycopene. The Nettle row says leaf. And the Vitamin E row prints 167% of the Daily Value for a synthetic form that delivers about 12.5 mg, or roughly 83%. Every one of those sums is set out row by row.
If your bottle’s panel differs from the table above in any row — a different amount, a missing standardisation, a proprietary blend where nine separate amounts should be, a different plant part — photograph it before you take a capsule, and raise it with the order desk the same day. A mismatch is the one thing on this product that nobody can check for you.
The rest of the label, in five more checks
The panel is the important part and it is not the whole label. Five more lines are printed on the artwork and all five are quick to confirm.
| Detail | What we were actually given |
|---|---|
| Directions | As a dietary supplement, adults take two (2) capsules daily. For best results, take with 6-8 oz of water or as directed by a healthcare professional. |
| Caution block | Do not exceed recommended dose. Pregnant or nursing mothers, children under the age of 18, and individuals with a known medical condition should consult a physician before using this or any dietary supplement. |
| Storage and safety lines | KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN. DO NOT USE IF SAFETY SEAL IS DAMAGED OR MISSING. STORE IN A COOL, DRY PLACE. |
| Other ingredients | Gelatin (capsule), Brown Rice Flour. The gelatin shell is why the Vegetarian badge in the marketing set contradicts the product. |
| Distributor | Nutrova, Tallmadge, OH 44278, USA, with the email [email protected], printed as Distributed By. |
| Regulatory marks | Three marks are printed along the foot of the label: GMP CERTIFIED, MADE IN THE USA, USING FOREIGN AND U.S. INGREDIENTS, and MANUFACTURED IN A FDA REGISTERED FACILITY. The middle one is a properly qualified country-of-origin claim and is correctly drafted. The other two name no certifying body, no registration number and no audit date. |
| FDA statement | These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. |
The caution block deserves a sentence of its own. This caution block is complete and correctly drafted. It names a dose limit and the four groups who should ask first, and it is printed on the label rather than left to the sales page. That is worth saying plainly, because a great many labels this desk has read do not manage it.
And the Other Ingredients line is a quiet piece of good practice with an awkward consequence. Two other ingredients, both named. The gelatin shell means this product is not vegetarian, which the label does not say in words but does disclose by naming the material — and which matters, because one of the badges in the marketing set reads Vegetarian. The badges are sorted out one at a time here.
The two reference strings, labelled as drafts
Two strings exist in the material supplied, and both are printed here as what they are: references with no document behind either.
| Detail | What we were actually given |
|---|---|
| Lot reference | P-26/PR-4126 — a draft reference. The string that governs is the one printed on the bottle you receive. |
| Certificate reference | P-4126-26-PR — a draft reference. No certificate document has been shown to this desk. |
| Testing laboratory | Not published. None is named anywhere in the material. |
| Manufacturer | Not published. The label names a distributor, which is a different role. |
| Lot and best-before on the bottle | Printed on the base of the bottle when the bottle shows it; no base shot was supplied, so this desk has not seen one. |
| What to do about it | Photograph the base of the bottle the day it arrives, and keep the photograph with the order confirmation email. |
Printing those two strings as drafts rather than as facts is the whole point of this section. A lot code and a certificate number look like evidence. On their own they are labels for documents, and a label for a document you have never seen establishes nothing. The honest version is the one above: here are the strings, here is what stands behind them, which is nothing yet.
What a certificate of analysis actually is
Worth two paragraphs, because the phrase gets used loosely and a reader asking for one should know what to expect back.
A certificate of analysis is a laboratory’s report on a specific production lot. A real one names the laboratory and its address, names who commissioned the test, describes the sample and the lot it came from, gives the dates it was received and tested, lists the methods used, and states the results against the specification. The row that speaks to a Supplement Facts panel is the assay by ingredient: the measured amount of each declared constituent. A certificate with only a microbiology and heavy-metals screen is a safety document, not a confirmation of the panel.
On this product, none of that exists in the material supplied. What exists is a certificate reference string, P-4126-26-PR, with no document attached. That is not unusual in this category and it is not an accusation. It is the reason the eleven questions below are phrased the way they are: each one asks for a specific document or a specific number, so a reply either contains it or visibly does not.
Eleven questions for the order desk
Copy these into one email to [email protected], or work through them on the phone to +1 (302) 200-3480 and write down what you are told. Each one names a document or a number, so each one can be answered or visibly not answered.
- Is the Supplement Facts panel on the bottle you ship identical to the artwork in your asset pack? Nine rows, nine amounts. A yes in writing is worth having.
- Is the saw palmetto standardised, and to what? The row prints 300 mg and no standardisation. It is the largest botanical row on the panel and the only one of the big three with no percentage.
- Is the pumpkin seed extract standardised, and to what? Same question, same reason.
- Why is grape seed extract in a prostate blend? Nothing in the material explains it, and it is the third-largest botanical row on the panel.
- Which lot is in the bottle I will receive, and does it match the reference string on your paperwork? The reference supplied to this desk is P-26/PR-4126.
- Can you send the certificate of analysis for that lot? The reference supplied is P-4126-26-PR, and no document behind it has been shown to this desk.
- Which laboratory tested it, and is the certificate from that laboratory or from the manufacturer? No testing laboratory is named anywhere in the material.
- Who manufactures it? The label names a distributor, Nutrova, Tallmadge, OH 44278, USA, which is a different role. No manufacturer is named.
- Which certifying body issued the GMP mark, under what number, and on what date? The mark is printed with none of the three.
- What is the facility registration number behind the FDA-registered mark? Registration is a filing rather than an approval, and the number is the only part of it that can be checked.
- Is the refund window 60 days or 90? The sales page prints both. Ask for it in writing and keep the reply.
Three of those eleven are the ones to send even if you send nothing else. The first, because a written yes about the panel is the only assurance available that the artwork and the bottle agree. The sixth, because a certificate for your lot is the only document that would speak to the amounts. And the last, because the refund window is printed 60 days in one place and 90 in another and that is the one gap in this material that can cost you money. The window has its own page.
The four shapes of reply
Four things can come back. Knowing which one you are holding is most of the value of having asked.
A certificate arrives, from a named laboratory, for the lot on your bottle
The best outcome and the rarest. Check three things on it: that the laboratory is named with an address, that the lot on the certificate matches the lot on your bottle, and that it carries an assay by ingredient rather than only a microbiology and heavy-metals screen. The assay is the row that speaks to the panel.
A certificate arrives for a different lot, or with no lot at all
Common, and of limited use. A certificate is a statement about one production run. One for another run tells you the company tests something, which is worth knowing, and tells you nothing about the capsules in your hand.
A screenshot of a facility registration or a GMP logo arrives instead
Not a certificate, and not an answer to the question asked. A facility registration is a filing. A GMP logo without a certifying body, a number and a date is a graphic. Ask again, naming the lot.
Nothing arrives, or the reply declines
A perfectly ordinary outcome in this category, and it is information rather than an accusation. It tells you the documentation you would be buying on is the label and this site’s transcription of it, and nothing more. Decide with that in view.
None of the four outcomes tells you whether this product does anything, and that is worth saying before you spend a week on the correspondence. The strongest result available — a real certificate, for your lot, with an assay by ingredient — would confirm that the capsules contain what the panel says. The panel is already the most complete one in this series, and the finding against this product is not that the amounts are hidden. It is what four of the nine amounts turn out to be once they are multiplied out.
The findings behind this page
One numbered finding, printed in full, in the same words it appears in everywhere else on this site.
12The label artwork still carries the printer's instructions
Questions people actually ask
Eight questions about lots, certificates and checking a bottle, phrased the way they are typed. Type to filter.
prostacyl lot number and certificate of analysis
Two reference strings exist in the material: a lot reference P-26/PR-4126 and a certificate reference P-4126-26-PR. No certificate document has been shown to this desk, and no testing laboratory is named anywhere. Treat both strings as drafts: the string that matters is the one printed on the bottle you receive, and no photograph of a bottle base was supplied, so this desk has not seen one.
is the prostacyl label real
The artwork supplied is real artwork and it is the best label document in this series — nine ingredients, nine printed amounts, no proprietary blend, species and plant parts named. It is also, demonstrably, pre-press: it still carries a grey rectangle reading AREA FOR BARCODE with the production note “Background must be white and barcode must be black”. That is an instruction to whoever sets the artwork, and it does not appear on a printed retail label.
what does area for barcode on a label mean
It is a placeholder in a print file. Someone laying out the artwork has reserved a rectangle for the barcode and written a note to the printer about the contrast it needs. The note is removed before the label goes on a press. Seeing it means you are looking at a proof rather than at a finished label, which is a statement about the document and not about the product.
how do i check my prostacyl bottle matches this page
Nine rows and five other checks, all of them printed on this page. Read the Supplement Facts panel on the bottle against the table above: 9 rows, 9 amounts, the two standardisation percentages, the species and the plant parts. Then check the directions, the caution block, the storage lines, the Other Ingredients line and the distributor. It takes about a minute.
what should i do if the bottle does not match
Photograph the panel on the bottle, the front of the label and the base, before you take anything. Then call +1 (302) 200-3480 with the order ID and email [email protected] on the same day, attaching the photographs and asking which document is correct. Do not throw the bottle or the box away. The refund procedure is set out step by step here, and the window is printed as 60 days in one place and 90 in another.
does prostacyl publish third party testing
Not published. No testing laboratory is named, no certificate of analysis has been shown to this desk, and the two quality marks on the label — GMP certified and manufactured in a FDA registered facility — name no certifying body, number or audit date between them. All ten supplied badges are sorted out one at a time here.
where is the expiry date on a prostacyl bottle
Printed on the base of the bottle when the bottle shows it; no base shot was supplied, so this desk has not seen one. A lot code and a best-before date are the two things a seller asks for when something goes wrong, so photograph the base the day the parcel arrives rather than hunting for it later.
does the prostacyl panel add up
Yes, and this is a credit rather than a complaint. The nine printed amounts total 808.8 mg a serving, which is 404.4 mg a capsule across the two-capsule serving. A size 0 capsule holds roughly 400 to 500 mg of powder, so the fill is plausible and close to capacity with the brown rice flour making up the rest. The panel is internally consistent. The full transcription is here.
References
Two sources, cited for the regulatory statements on this page: the rule that governs what a Supplement Facts panel has to carry, and the manufacturing-practice regulation the GMP mark on the label refers to.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide: Chapter IV, Nutrition Labeling (21 CFR 101.36).
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (2026). Current Good Manufacturing Practice for Dietary Supplements (21 CFR Part 111).
Read the panel before you decide
Sixty capsules, two a day, thirty days a bottle. The Supplement Facts panel declares nine ingredients and nine amounts, with no proprietary blend — the most transparent label in this series. Four of those nine rows change meaning once the arithmetic is done, and all four sums are shown in full. One bottle is $69; six are $49 each. The refund window is printed as 60 days in one place and 90 in another.
- 60 or 90 days — the page prints both
- Nine ingredients, nine printed amounts, no blend
- Returns to 1370 Avenue of the Americas, Floor 4, New York, NY 10019, USA
Prices as printed on the sales page, as of October 12, 2026: one bottle $69, six bottles $49 each with free shipping. The three-bottle total is not published, so it is left blank rather than estimated. The refund window is printed as 60 days in one place and 90 in another — confirm it at the checkout. Questions first? Every published contact route is here.
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Authorship and review
Who wrote and checked this page
What this page was checked against
- The label artwork, read at 2× and transcribed character for character. Where the label and the marketing disagree, the label is printed.
- The seller pack, quoted rather than paraphrased, and identified as marketing wherever it is used.
- The published sources listed in the references on this page. Every one was opened and read; none is cited from memory.
- The arithmetic, shown in full. Every amount on this panel is printed, so the figures here are conversions of printed amounts with the working given, never ceilings and never estimates.
- Nothing else. Any fact that was not supplied is recorded as not published rather than filled in.
Last updated October 12, 2026. A highlighted slot is a value no human has supplied yet. Who reviews these pages?