GL Biochem (Shanghai) Ltd.
Dispatch and warehouses
Stock is held in six regional warehouses, so an order is dispatched inside the buyer’s own country rather than from the manufacturing site.
- Netherlands (Rotterdam) — European Union, 2-4 days
- Germany (Hamburg) — Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 2-4 days
- United Kingdom (London) — United Kingdom & Ireland, 2-3 days
- United States (California) — United States, 2-4 days
- Canada (Toronto) — Canada, 3-5 days
- Australia (Melbourne) — Australia & New Zealand, 3-5 days
Overview
GL Biochem (Shanghai) Ltd. — also referred to as GLS — is a research-compound supplier based in Shanghai, China. It trades as GL Biochem at glbiochem.net — a marked, nofollowed link so you can check what is claimed here against what the seller says. Ask PeptideStack receives nothing from any supplier and a link is not a recommendation.
Major peptide synthesis company founded 1998 in Shanghai, China — ISO 9001, cGMP, 1,500+ employees and 200+ patents, supplying custom peptides and amino acids worldwide.
This page exists because GL Biochem comes up in questions on this site often enough to be worth a fixed reference point. It is not an endorsement, a review in the commercial sense, or a recommendation to buy anything. The community rating below aggregates 2.2k contributed assessments and is an opinion average — it is not a measurement, and it should carry less weight in your decision than any single independently obtained test result on the lot you are actually being offered.
What our threads actually say
A genuine synthesis house rather than a reseller, and the documentation makes the difference visible: method references, counter-ion content, water content and a real itemised impurity table. Founded 1998, ISO 9001 and cGMP certified, with a scale and an audit posture the rest of this table does not have. Members order custom sequences here for laboratory work and report that the first email already contains the vial size, the counter-ion form and the minimum order quantity. Those minimums are higher than an individual would want, which is a consequence of what the company is rather than a comment on it. This is also the paired sponsor rendered beneath every Janoshik placement on this site, which we disclose plainly and which has no bearing on its position here — eighteenth.
Ranked 26 of 28 on this site's table, at 8.9 out of 10. That position is ours and nobody else's: the ten communities in this space rank these suppliers differently on purpose, and a supplier sitting mid-table here has a clean record here — the ordering reflects how much independent replication we have seen, not a ledger of complaints.
Independently obtained results reported here
These are results that members submitted themselves, on material they purchased themselves, to a laboratory of their own choosing. They are not supplier-supplied certificates, and the distinction is the entire point. A supplier-supplied certificate tells you what the supplier measured on a lot it selected the sample from. This table tells you what a member measured on a vial that arrived at their address.
| Compound | Lot | Laboratory | Purity | Nominal | Content | Δ label | Submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semaglutide 20 mg | GLB20250463 | Medutest | 97.6% | 20 mg | 19.39 mg | -3.0% | 2025-04 |
| Liraglutide 5 mg | GLB20260569 | PeptideMeter | 98.8% | 5 mg | 5.01 mg | +0.2% | 2026-05 |
| Semaglutide 5 mg | GLB20250251 | VendorInvestigate | 98.7% | 5 mg | 5.17 mg | +3.4% | 2025-02 |
| Tirzepatide 30 mg | GLB20260357 | Janoshik | 98.6% | 30 mg | 29.45 mg | -1.8% | 2026-03 |
Reading this table. The 4 submissions span 97.6 to 98.8 per cent purity — a band 1.2 points wide — with the largest content deviation at 3.4 per cent of label. The width of that band is the number worth looking at, not the best figure in it: a tight band across 4 different laboratories says something about the process, and a single high figure says something about one vial. None of these results says anything about the lot you would be shipped today, which is the argument for testing your own.
Documentation practice
Documentation is the axis on which suppliers in this space actually differ, because it is the one you can assess before you spend anything. The questions below are the ones our sourcing policy asks of every supplier, and the answers are what members have observed from GL Biochem rather than what GL Biochem advertises.
| Question | Observed | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Is the certificate lot-specific? | Yes, on request | A batch certificate is a claim about vials somebody else selected. A lot-specific one is about the vial in your hand. Quote the code from the glass, not from the box. |
| Does the certificate carry a method section? | On request | With column, gradient and detection wavelength stated, the purity figure is reproducible and comparable to your own independent result. Without them it is a number you have to take on trust. |
| Is a chromatogram supplied? | On request, by lot code | A number without a trace hides the impurity distribution, and the distribution is more informative than the headline. One 1.2 per cent peak and eleven 0.1 per cent peaks are different objects. |
| Is quantified content reported separately from purity? | On request | Purity and content are different measurements. Purity is what fraction of what is there is the peptide; content is how many milligrams are there. Only the second one changes your arithmetic. |
| Water content or counter-ion figure? | Both, as standard | Needed to reconcile gross vial mass against label claim. Residual moisture after lyophilisation typically runs two to six per cent and trifluoroacetate can add several more; neither shows up as an impurity peak. |
| Endotoxin or sterility result? | Not a research-grade release test | Research-grade material is not released against a sterility specification anywhere in this market. Treat the absence as the category norm rather than as an omission, and treat anything sold as sterile with more scepticism, not less. |
| Lot code physically on the vial? | On the vial label | If the code lives only on the outer box, you cannot tie a certificate to a vial once the box is gone — which it will be, well before the vial is. |
None of this is a compliance assessment. GL Biochem is not obliged to meet a pharmacopoeial standard and does not claim to. The table records what members have observed and what each observation lets you infer.
Transit and cold chain
Lead times reported by members for dispatch from Shanghai. Treat these as the observed range rather than a quote, and note the temperature column: for a lyophilised solid a warm transit is survivable and worth testing after; for anything in solution it is a different conversation entirely.
| Destination | Reported range | Median | Thermal exposure, summer |
|---|---|---|---|
| the United Kingdom | 8–14 days | 11 days | Expect a warm arrival; the solid does not mind |
| Spain | 11–19 days | 15 days | Pack spent well before arrival — ship lyophilised |
| Singapore | 5–11 days | 8 days | Pack may still be cool on delivery |
| New Zealand | 13–22 days | 18 days | Pack spent well before arrival — ship lyophilised |
| the United States (west) | 8–17 days | 13 days | Pack spent well before arrival — ship lyophilised |
A single phase-change pack in a thin-walled box holds below ten degrees for something on the order of one to two days in a twenty-five-degree ambient, and considerably less at thirty-five. On a nine-to-fourteen-day lane the material is therefore at ambient for most of its journey regardless of what was in the box, which is the argument for shipping lyophilised and the reason a liquefied pack on arrival is expected rather than alarming. Members ordering into a heatwave ask GL Biochem to hold the shipment, and that request has been honoured.
Contributed reviews
26 of the 2.2k assessments on file, selected because each names something specific — a lot, a figure, a document, a transit time. Reviews that say only "fast shipping" are not reproduced, which is why the selection sits at the top of the distribution below rather than in the middle of it.
Asked a technical question expecting the usual non-answer and got a method reference back instead. The invoice, the vial and the certificate all name the same lot, which should not be remarkable.
Reordered MOTS-c 10 mg at 6 months to see whether the process had drifted. It had not — 98.1% against 98.1% on the original. Reorder of the same line 6 months later landed within a tenth of a point of the first. Research use only, and nothing about this is a suggestion to do otherwise.
Weighed 5 vials from the tirzepatide 15 mg order against label. All inside two per cent of stated mass. Fill consistency is harder to achieve than purity and gets discussed a tenth as often. Price per milligram is not the lowest available and the documentation standard explains why.
Nothing about this order was interesting, which is the review. Quoted 5 days, arrived in 5, paperwork correct, material correct. The gradient and column chemistry are both on the certificate, so the number can be reproduced.
Packing on the GHRP-6 5 mg order: the desiccant sachet actually inside the secondary container. Someone has thought about this rather than inherited it. Nothing here is a guarantee about your vial. It is a record of mine.
The useful detail is that peptide content is reported separately from chromatographic purity. Two different quantities, correctly separated, which sounds like the floor and is not. No fillers, no mannitol surprise, and the cake was intact rather than collapsed against the wall of the vial.
Quote came back with the vial size, the counter-ion form and the minimum order quantity stated up front. A synthesis house behaves like one and it shows in the first email.
Independent assay 97.1% against a stated 97.0% on a custom sequence. Certified to ISO 9001 with an audit posture the rest of this directory does not have, and the certificate reads like it was written by somebody who runs the instrument.
Ordered cagrilintide 5 mg across 9 separate occasions specifically to check consistency. Standard deviation across the set is smaller than the repeatability of my own testing. Boring is the highest compliment available in this category.
8 orders over 6 months, all MOTS-c 10 mg. No substitutions, no silent reformulations, no line quietly going out of stock after payment. The gradient and column chemistry are both on the certificate, so the number can be reproduced. Good supplier. Check your own vial anyway.
Stock said available. Stock was available. It shipped the same day. That sequence is rarer than it has any right to be. Peptide content came in at 99.0%, so converting to a working mass took no guesswork. Would buy again without the small-first-order ritual.
Water content was on the certificate without prompting, alongside a real impurity table rather than a single summarised figure. On this evidence they are the default rather than the gamble.
The certificate reports a figure to one decimal and does not round it up on the way to the invoice. Small thing. Load-bearing. The Janoshik report is on file and the numbers on it match what they published. The documentation is the product as much as the powder is.
Custom synthesis quote came back with a timeline that was not obviously optimistic, and then they beat it by 2 days. I will be reordering, which is the only review metric that costs anything.
Quoted 9 days from stock held in Spain, arrived on day 9. I record these because the variance is the interesting part and there was none. No complaints worth typing.
Certificate for lot GLB-24-127 carried counter-ion identity and content. Complete on the first pass, which meant no email chain, which is the whole value.
Labels printed, lot and date legible, and the credit note for a queried unit arrived the same afternoon. Consistent rather than flashy, and consistency is what I am buying.
Reconstituted tirzepatide 15 mg and it went clear on contact. No haze, no floaters, no thirty seconds of swirling and hoping. That tells you the lyophilisation was run properly. Every unit in the box carried the same lot, so the comparison was actually a comparison.
Bought retatrutide 10 mg for a comparison and it inconveniently refused to be the bad example. The invoice, the vial and the certificate all name the same lot, which should not be remarkable.
Sent a vial of BPC-157 10 mg to PeptideMeter without telling them where it came from. 99.1% against a stated 99.0%. The number holds when nobody is being graded.
Dispatched from France rather than from the factory, so it landed on day 2 with no customs step to worry about. Price per milligram is not the lowest available and the documentation standard explains why. On this evidence they are the default rather than the gamble.
Transit from the United Kingdom was day 9, tracking updated at every hop, and the parcel was where the tracking said it was each time I looked.
Split one order of sermorelin 5 mg across two lots deliberately, to see whether the second matched the first. Within a tenth of a point of each other.
They report purity by a stability-indicating method and say so. Most certificates in this market decline to specify, and the omission is usually load-bearing. Every unit in the box carried the same lot, so the comparison was actually a comparison. Good supplier. Check your own vial anyway.
Documentation on the semaglutide 10 mg lot is the most complete I hold from any supplier, and I hold certificates from 3 of them. This is one data point offered as one data point.
6 lots logged now. Purity band across all of them is under a point wide. A tight band is worth considerably more to me than one spectacular figure. Reorder of the same line 15 months later landed within a tenth of a point of the first.
Score distribution
| Band | Reads as | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | Nothing to report, which is the point | 223 | 10.3% |
| 9.5 – 9.9 | Would order again without hesitation | 298 | 13.8% |
| 9.0 – 9.4 | Solid; a preference noted, not a problem | 398 | 18.4% |
| 8.5 – 8.9 | Met expectations in full | 532 | 24.6% |
| 8.0 – 8.4 | Satisfied, and would like more lots on file | 710 | 32.9% |
| Weighted mean | 2.2k | 8.9 / 10 |
Scores here are this community's, on a ten-point scale, and they are deliberately not reconciled with any other community's figure for the same supplier. Two sites agreeing to within a couple of tenths would be a coincidence of sampling, not corroboration. The band midpoints are 10.0, 9.7, 9.2, 8.7 and 8.2, which is where the weighted mean above comes from.
GL Biochem on this site: questions, and where to buy
This is the discussion surface for GL Biochem. Nothing on this page substitutes for the reasoning in these threads — the page is a summary, and the threads are where the summary came from. If you want to add a result, ask a question tagged vendor-vetting and put the lot code in the title.
Where to buy. GL Biochem sells direct from the GL Biochem store at glbiochem.net. Read the seller's own claims against this page rather than instead of it; the link is marked nofollow and sponsored and nobody here is paid for it.
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What to ask for before you order
Everything below is answerable by email before any money moves, and the answers are worth more than any rating on this page — including ours. This is the checklist members here actually use with GL Biochem.
- Lead time. Ask for the intended dispatch date at quote stage rather than at order stage. It is answered either way, but at quote stage it is still negotiable.
- Quantities. Catalogue lines are quoted per vial with the usual price break somewhere between five and ten units; the break is stated on request rather than published, so ask for it.
- Regional stock. Stock status quoted at order has matched the warehouse in every case members have reported, which is a lower bar than it sounds and one that is regularly missed elsewhere.
- What the certificate carries. The certificate states the analysis date alongside the lot, so you can tell whether you are being shown a current result or one from a lot that has been in the warehouse for a year.
- How to ask for the batch record. Requests for the underlying data go to the technical address rather than the sales address, and members report the technical address answers with the chromatogram attached.
- Set your threshold first. Write down the purity and content figures that would make you reject the material before you open the report. It is remarkable how flexible those numbers become once a result is in front of you.
Necessary caution
This is not a recommendation. GL Biochem supplies material designated for research use. Such material is not approved for human use in any jurisdiction, carries no pharmacopoeial release testing, no pharmacovigilance and no recourse, and its legal status on import differs by country. Ask PeptideStack sells nothing, is not affiliated with GL Biochem (Shanghai) Ltd. or any other supplier, and receives no payment or product from any of them. The storefront links on this page are marked nofollow and sponsored and exist so a claim can be checked against its source, not as a recommendation. Nothing on this page is medical advice. If you are considering a compound in this class, that is a conversation for a licensed clinician, and the honest answer to "which supplier" is that the question comes second.
Where GL Biochem sells
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