The problem is that you have a consumer doing testing. If things are ordered by a lab and shipped directly from supplier to lab, then you have a lot better ground to stand on. Trust me, I've been through this to many times. Once a person touches it, outside of a fully accredited, then you're just asking to have your ass handed to you in court.
His location makes no difference. The transaction happened here. If anything, it would be an even LARGER pain in the butt to do. Just my thoughts.
Is there a lab within the US that has the piracetam standard? I'm not currently aware of one. I'll gladly do my own testing and publish the results. With no prior standard testing done, it isn't like I have a super secret sample that I can send in place of the material I ship out on a daily basis with.
You don't necessarily need a lab with the standard. Sigma Aldrich has standards for pretty much everything. If they don't have it, they can probably tell you where to get it. You can always request a test and submit the standard yourself, which I would suggest doing to make sure it's done right.
Analytical Labs in Anaheim will do an HPLC (and give you the printouts so you know they actually did the work...) and tell you methodologies too. Last time I checked they said would do an HPLC for $200 -- but that was last year, when that lab wouldn't even HPLC nootropic products because they thought they might be illegal (or maybe because I said I wanted them tested like pharma "drugs"). Oh, and they take up to THREE WEEKS to deliver results sometimes...
Sigma currently has two standards available, one is a German drug for animal use, and might be the better standard after all -- I don't think the Germans would want anything other than the best for their domesticated animals. I don't know many folks who feed their dogs Piracetam, but even man's best friend might want an IQ improvement... However, FDA might have a different view on this...
1. VETRANAL®, analytical standard (Riedel-de Haën)
http://www.sigmaaldr...il/RIEDEL/33895
2. P5295 Sigma Piracetam
http://www.sigmaaldr...ail/SIGMA/P5295
Peace out.