Research-use policy

For laboratory research use only. Not for human or veterinary use. Not for use in diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Not for use as a drug, food additive, cosmetic, household chemical or agricultural product.

Scope of supply

Dohrna Research Supplies Limited, trading as Dohrna, supplies laboratory reagents to verified institutional customers for in vitro research. Supply is restricted to public research bodies, experimental and teaching institutions, and commercial research organisations whose research status has been verified under the institutional verification procedure described below.

The Supplier does not distribute these substances to private individuals.

What is not supplied

No Product is supplied:

• for administration to humans or to animals;
• for pharmaceutical, diagnostic or therapeutic use;
• for use as a food, food additive, feed or feed additive;
• for cosmetic, household or agricultural use;
• for resale to the general public;
• for incorporation into any article intended for human or animal use.

No Product holds a marketing authorisation as a medicinal product in any EU/EEA Member State or in the United Kingdom. No Product has been assessed by any medicines regulator for use in humans or animals.

Position on published literature

Where literature is cited on a product page it is listed by author, journal, year, DOI and PubMed identifier only. Findings are not summarised, characterised or paraphrased.

This is deliberate. A description of a physiological effect is a claim whatever tense it is written in, and a citation described in outcome language would present the substance as a medicinal product under Art. 1(2)(a) of Directive 2001/83/EC. The Supplier therefore publishes identifiers and leaves the reading of the literature to the researcher.

For the same reason the site carries no customer feedback, no discussion forum, no unmoderated question-and-answer facility and no third-party content of any kind.

Institutional verification

Ordering requires an account in approved status. The stages are:

1. Registration. An email address at the institution's own domain. Free webmail and disposable domains are declined.
2. Email verification. Ownership confirmed by a single-use link.
3. Business verification. VAT identification number validated live against the EC VIES service, with the consultation reference stored against the account. Company registration number captured and checked against the relevant national register. Institution, department, principal investigator and laboratory address recorded. Signed end-use declaration on institutional letterhead uploaded.
4. Manual approval. A named operator of the Supplier examines the file and approves the account. No automated path into this state exists.
5. Active. The account is in good standing.

Controls applied at order time

• Delivery to the address stated on the order — institutional or, within the United States, residential. PO boxes are declined, and the address cannot be changed after the order is placed.
• The billing name must match the verified company recorded against the account.
• A ceiling applies to the quantity of each compound supplied to one account over a rolling thirty-day period.
• The destination selector is generated from the allow-list for the compound ordered and cannot be altered by the Buyer.
• Sanctions and embargo screening is applied to the buyer name and the destination country.

Age and capacity

Entry to the catalogue carries a confirmation that the visitor is at least 18 years of age and is acting in a business capacity.

That confirmation is a cosmetic control and the Supplier does not rely on it. Self-declaration of age is not a highly effective age-assurance method. The substantive assurance is the business verification described above: a named principal investigator at a verified institution with a validated VAT number is a materially stronger position than a checkbox.

Consistency of this position

The statements on this page appear in identical terms on every product page, on the outer packaging, on the Certificate of Analysis, on the Safety Data Sheet, on the packing slip and on the invoice.

Inconsistent disclaimers — a research-use statement on the label alongside human-use language elsewhere — are a named underwriting red flag and evidence that the supplier knows its buyers are not researchers. The Supplier holds one position everywhere.

Enforcement

A breach of the research-use warranty entitles the Supplier to cancel the order, suspend the account and decline future supply. Where a breach suggests onward supply for human use, the Supplier will notify the competent authority in the relevant jurisdiction.