Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) Co., 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
Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. — also referred to as SGN, SGN Biotech — is a research-compound supplier based in Shanghai, China, established 2004. It trades as SGN at sangonbio.com — 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.
Research compound manufacturer trading as SGN (sangonbio.com), based in Shanghai, China — est. 2004, Janoshik-tested, Medutest, PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate verified, supplying 350+ peptides, sarms, injectable oils and raw materials with full COA documentation and worldwide tracked shipping.
This page exists because SGN 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 981 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
An established reagent house whose transactions members describe as boring, which in this context is high praise. The distinguishing feature is that certificates carry a method reference rather than only a result: you can see which column and which gradient produced the number, which means you can compare it against your own independent submission properly instead of guessing. Purity is reported by a stability-indicating method and the certificate says so. The catalogue extends well beyond peptides, and members ordering reagents alongside compounds have found the paperwork identical in quality across both.
Ranked 7 of 28 on this site's table, at 9.5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesamorelin 10 mg | SGN20251054 | VendorInvestigate | 99.0% | 10 mg | 9.96 mg | -0.4% | 2025-10 |
| BPC-157 10 mg | SGN20261160 | Janoshik | 98.9% | 10 mg | 10.16 mg | +1.6% | 2026-11 |
| Survodutide 10 mg | SGN20251266 | Medutest | 99.2% | 10 mg | 10.08 mg | +0.8% | 2025-12 |
| Cagrilintide 5 mg | SGN20260172 | PeptideMeter | 99.1% | 5 mg | 4.88 mg | -2.4% | 2026-01 |
Reading this table. The 4 submissions span 98.9 to 99.2 per cent purity — a band 0.3 points wide — with the largest content deviation at 2.4 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 SGN rather than what SGN advertises.
| Question | Observed | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Is the certificate lot-specific? | As standard | 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? | Column, gradient, wavelength | 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 | 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? | Yes | 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? | On request | 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? | Printed on the vial | 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. SGN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore | 5–10 days | 8 days | Pack may still be cool on delivery |
| New Zealand | 13–21 days | 17 days | Pack spent well before arrival — ship lyophilised |
| the United Kingdom | 8–16 days | 12 days | Expect a warm arrival; the solid does not mind |
| Spain | 11–18 days | 15 days | Pack spent well before arrival — ship lyophilised |
| Canada | 9–18 days | 14 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 SGN to hold the shipment, and that request has been honoured.
Contributed reviews
26 of the 981 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.
Certificate for lot SGN-26-183 carries a method reference rather than only a result, so I could match my own submission against the same column and gradient. The PeptideMeter figures agree with theirs.
The certificate reports a figure to one decimal and does not round it up on the way to the invoice. Small thing. Load-bearing. Support answered on a Sunday, correctly, with the batch record attached. Worth the difference in price for the paperwork alone.
Reconstituted kisspeptin-10 5 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.
Certificate for lot SGN-26-468 carried peptide content stated separately from purity. Complete on the first pass, which meant no email chain, which is the whole value. Peptide content came in at 96.9%, so converting to a working mass took no guesswork. Nothing here is a guarantee about your vial. It is a record of mine.
Nothing about this order was interesting, which is the review. Quoted 6 days, arrived in 6, paperwork correct, material correct. Customs paperwork was right first time, which is the actual reason it moved that quickly. Recommended, with the usual caveat that one buyer is not a dataset.
Bought survodutide 10 mg specifically to test the documentation rather than the material. The certificate carried a signature and a date from whoever released the batch, which is more than the last three suppliers I tried managed between them. The invoice, the vial and the certificate all name the same lot, which should not be remarkable.
First order was deliberately small — tesamorelin 2 mg only — because I wanted to spend a small amount finding out. Documentation, transit and a Janoshik result at 99.2% all checked out, so the second one was not small.
Stock said available. Stock was available. It shipped the same day. That sequence is rarer than it has any right to be. Support answered on a Sunday, correctly, with the batch record attached. If the next lot holds, I will stop testing every one. That is meant as praise.
Both vials of tesamorelin 2 mg reconstituted cleanly and both matched their own certificates. n=2, stated as n=2. Consistent rather than flashy, and consistency is what I am buying.
Quoted 9 days from stock held in Canada, arrived on day 9. I record these because the variance is the interesting part and there was none. Peptide content came in at 99.5%, so converting to a working mass took no guesswork.
Split one order of TB-500 5 mg across two lots deliberately, to see whether the second matched the first. Within a tenth of a point of each other. Worth the difference in price for the paperwork alone.
Custom synthesis quote came back with a timeline that was not obviously optimistic, and then they beat it by 2 days. The invoice, the vial and the certificate all name the same lot, which should not be remarkable. Would buy again without the small-first-order ritual.
Every vial in the twelve-unit box arrived intact and carrying the same lot, so the comparison I wanted to run was actually a comparison. On this evidence they are the default rather than the gamble.
Ran GHK-Cu 50 mg past PeptideMeter and then past Medutest as a cross-check. 97.2% and 97.2%. Two labs, two gradients, one answer.
Ordered melanotan II 10 mg across 8 separate occasions specifically to check consistency. Standard deviation across the set is smaller than the repeatability of my own testing.
Documentation on the semaglutide 10 mg lot is the most complete I hold from any supplier, and I hold certificates from 7 of them. Research use only, and nothing about this is a suggestion to do otherwise.
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. Customs paperwork was right first time, which is the actual reason it moved that quickly.
Reordered ipamorelin 5 mg at 18 months to see whether the process had drifted. It had not — 99.4% against 99.4% on the original. Nothing here is a guarantee about your vial. It is a record of mine.
4 orders over 12 months, all TB-500 5 mg. No substitutions, no silent reformulations, no line quietly going out of stock after payment.
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. A second certificate for an older lot was retrieved from their records without complaint.
Lot SGN-25-605. Purity 98.0% by RP-HPLC with the wavelength printed on the certificate, so the figure is at least falsifiable. Boring is the highest compliment available in this category.
Compared their raw material against a reseller vial of nominally the same compound. 98.8% versus 98.7%. Going direct is not a preference, it is arithmetic. Peptide content came in at 97.7%, so converting to a working mass took no guesswork. This is one data point offered as one data point.
Ordered tirzepatide 15 mg. Independent check at PeptideMeter came back 97.4% against a stated 97.6%, which is inside the noise of the method rather than a disagreement.
Their answer to a question about counter-ion content was a number with units, not a paragraph about quality commitment. The documentation is the product as much as the powder is.
The related-substances table is itemised rather than summarised, so you can see what the impurities actually are instead of being told there are 0.4% of them. The stated purity and the independent figure differ by less than the method repeatability, which is the honest place for them to differ. Good supplier. Check your own vial anyway.
Bought hexarelin 5 mg for a comparison and it inconveniently refused to be the bad example.
Score distribution
| Band | Reads as | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | Nothing to report, which is the point | 374 | 38.1% |
| 9.5 – 9.9 | Would order again without hesitation | 251 | 25.6% |
| 9.0 – 9.4 | Solid; a preference noted, not a problem | 168 | 17.1% |
| 8.5 – 8.9 | Met expectations in full | 113 | 11.5% |
| 8.0 – 8.4 | Satisfied, and would like more lots on file | 75 | 7.6% |
| Weighted mean | 981 | 9.5 / 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.
SGN on this site: questions, and where to buy
This is the discussion surface for SGN. 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. SGN sells direct from the SGN store at sangonbio.com. 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 SGN.
- Lead time. The quoted window is counted in working days from cleared payment. Members who have asked for the dispatch date in writing have been given one, and it has held.
- Quantities. Mixed orders across several catalogue lines are quoted as one shipment, which is worth confirming before you split an order across two emails and pay carriage twice.
- Regional stock. Ask which warehouse a line will ship from before you order. It changes the transit estimate more than the carrier does.
- What the certificate carries. The certificate carries an itemised related-substances table rather than a single summarised impurity figure, so you can see what the impurities are instead of being told how many per cent of them there are.
- How to ask for the batch record. Ask for the batch record by lot code and specify that you want the chromatogram rather than a summary. The request is routine; the specificity is what makes it answerable.
- 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. SGN 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 Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) Co., 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 SGN sells
Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. sells directly at its own storefront. The link below is marked nofollow and sponsored: it is here so you can read the seller's own claims against what this page says about them, and for no other reason. Nobody on this site is paid for it, and a link is not a recommendation.
Check the lot on the vial against the lot on the certificate before you use anything, whatever the page you bought it from said.
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