Vendor Graveyard · Batch-quality scandals

JEEP — orange-cap Tirzepatide T30, January 2026 batch

This is one entry from the TitrateLab Vendor Graveyard, a dated, primary-source archive of peptide-market shutdowns, exit scams, and enforcement actions. Documented as April 2026. Sources for this entry are named inline below and numbered in full on the parent archive page.

The most-documented batch-quality failure in our 2026 corpus. Endotoxin contamination on injection-grade product, found across three independently-sourced vials from different countries.

On who ran the test. The assays were run by Janoshik. “LS Group Testing” is the community group-buy cohort that organised, funded and submitted the samples, not a laboratory; the submission is logged at Janoshik under the client name “EPU x LS Group Testing GB x juGGakNot Empire”. An earlier version of this entry named LS as the testing lab in one place and LiquiLabs in another. Both were wrong, and we have corrected them.

JEEP (also seen written as “JEEPJEEP” in vendor-side communications, branded around a sales rep called “Molly JEEP” on glp1forum.com) is a China-based research peptide vendor that maintains an active vendor account in the GLP-1 Forum marketplace. Through 2025 and into early 2026, JEEP ran the standard vendor-sponsor playbook: holiday-sale announcement threads, promo discount codes, customer-testimonial replies. Volume was high enough that the vendor was treated as mainstream-trustworthy by a meaningful slice of the community.

Timeline: - January 2026 — JEEP ships orange-cap Tirzepatide 30mg (“T30”) to a customer cohort across multiple countries. - April 8, 2026 — A community-funded submission to Janoshik, organised by the LS Group Testing cohort, returns endotoxin across three independently-sourced vials of the January batch. EU = endotoxin units. USP <85>, the chapter on bacterial-endotoxin testing for parenteral product, does not require an undetectable result; it sets a maximum permitted endotoxin load per dose. For parenteral drugs other than intrathecal the threshold is 5 EU/kg, which for a 70 kg adult is 350 EU per dose. The relevant question is therefore not what a vial contains but what a single injection delivers.

JEEP T30 orange-cap, Jan 2026 batch · Janoshik, submitted by the LS Group Testing cohort
VialDilution rangeEndotoxinPer 15 mg dosevs. 350 EU ceiling
#1baseline1,350 EU/vial675 EU1.9×
#2100–10001,360 EU/vial680 EU1.9×
#31000+2,306 EU/vial1,153 EU3.3×
Up to 3.3× the USP <85> per-dose endotoxin ceiling at the maximum labelled tirzepatide dose, from a product that should carry a negligible load. Ceiling: 5 EU/kg × 70 kg = 350 EU/dose. A 30 mg vial at 2,306 EU/vial delivers 1,153 EU in a 15 mg dose. The same vial sits under the ceiling at the 2.5 mg starting dose (192 EU). Source: USP <85>.

What the numbers do and do not say. Endotoxin per vial is fixed; endotoxin per injection scales with how much of the vial you draw. On these three vials a user at the 2.5 mg starting dose receives 113–192 EU, comfortably under the 350 EU ceiling. The 1,350 and 1,360 EU vials cross the ceiling at about 7.8 mg, and the 2,306 EU vial crosses it at about 4.6 mg. Anyone titrated to 5 mg or above on the worst vial, or to 10 mg or above on any of the three, is over the limit on every injection, and the excess compounds across a weekly schedule.

Correction, July 31, 2026. Until today this entry headlined the batch as "~100× the USP <85> limit" and printed ~100× / ~170× in the table. Those multipliers divided the per-vial load by a ceiling of roughly 13.5 EU, a figure that appears nowhere in USP <85>, while the caption directly beneath them computed the correct 350 EU per-dose ceiling and an observed value below it. The two numbers contradicted each other in print. The corrected comparison is above. The batch still exceeds the limit across most of the titration range, but by single-digit multiples, not by a hundredfold, and we should not have published a safety multiplier our own caption refuted.

Three independent vials, three independent donors, three concentrations of dilution test, all converging on the 1,350-2,306 EU/vial range. This is not measurement variance. Our corpus holds the Janoshik certificate carrying the 2,306 EU/vial result and its companion certificate from the same submission; the 1,350 and 1,360 EU/vial readings are reported in the source thread and we hold no certificate for them. A retest of the original kit was described in mid-April as being arranged; no retest result has been published as of July 31, 2026. - April 8 onwards — Community-wide “Endotoxin Warning” thread spins up on glp1forum.com (64+ posts as of mid-April). A separate “Enter your JEEP batch number and see the differences in your kit” thread starts collecting batch-by-batch reports from customers worldwide. - Mid-April 2026 — JEEP’s vendor announcement thread on the same forum has accumulated 173+ posts as community pressure for an official response builds. Vendor’s response in that thread is mostly promotional sales posts, no batch recall.

Why endotoxin matters here: endotoxins are bacterial-cell-wall lipopolysaccharides that survive most peptide-purification steps if the upstream synthesis was contaminated. They are not destroyed by standard sterile-filtration. On injection (subcutaneous, intramuscular, IV), endotoxin triggers a fever-and-inflammation response (the historical “pyrogen reaction”); at the levels reported on this batch, repeated dosing carries cumulative risk. This is the safety signal that USP <85> exists to catch.

Why this is a vendor-level event, not a one-off: the three vials were sourced from different customers’ independent purchases of the same January batch. They were not the same physical inventory. A fault that crosses customers in different countries and different dilution windows points at the upstream production lot, not the testing lab and not handling-after-shipment.

Editorial position
We do not currently route customer orders to JEEP. The January 2026 T30 orange-cap batch should be considered hazardous and not used. We don't have evidence that other JEEP batches (other compounds, other shipment windows) carry the same contamination, but in the absence of vendor-published batch-level remediation, we treat all currently-shipping JEEP product with elevated scrutiny. Our COA pipeline continues to ingest JEEP-tagged third-party tests because the chemistry data remains useful regardless of the trust question.

Primary sources: community safety-warning thread documenting the LS testing results; community-wide “Endotoxin Warning” discussion thread; batch-number aggregation thread; vendor announcement thread (for context on the vendor’s response posture).

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