VendorsBachem Americas
Layer A — cited: COA practices, testing, enforcement, provenanceLayer B — disclaimed: online sentiment, community reportsIndependence firewall: the Trust Index is computed from cited facts only — never sold, never sorts the directory.
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Overview

Independence-firewalled vendor profile · Trust Index computed from cited facts

Bachem Americas

www.bachem.comActiveResearch use only

US-facing research-peptide supplier, research-grade catalog + cGMP / pharmaceutical-grade API-grade, founded 1971. Publishes certificates of analysis. Identity and claims are vendor-stated unless cited. Research use only.

Publishes COAsGMP claimISO claimDomestic shipping
products listed
4.3/5Trustpilot (.io)
1971founded
Communityconfidence
2026-06-27 as of
Vendor Trust Index
/100
Thinly Documented

Some cited facts on file, but not enough independently-verified evidence to compute a precise index. No adverse records on file.

Coverage70%
ConfidenceModerate
Cited facts43

A transparency readout of 43 cited facts — never sold, never sorts the directory; not a safety verdict (RUO). How it’s computed →

Catalog breadth

No data available

External rating

Cited
4.3/5
Glassdoor (Torrance) · 41 reviews

COA policy

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Yes
publishes COAs

Operating status

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Active
as of 2026-06-27

Trust Index breakdown

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The Trust Index weighs five evidence pillars — purity claims-vs-reality, testing transparency, enforcement conduct, operational accountability and reputation integrity — into a single 0–100 factor. Nothing here can be bought.

Thinly Documented. Cited facts on file, but no allowlisted independent assay yet — a precise index is withheld. A precise number is withheld rather than guessed — absence of evidence is never shown as a low score.

Evidence at a glance

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Products listed
No data available
Publishes COAs
Yes
Independent tests tracked
0
Enforcement records
1
Cited sources
43

Methodology & independence

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  • The Trust Index is computed only from cited facts — and can never be bought.
  • Sponsorship & affiliate are excluded by construction — they never move the score, sort, or inclusion.
  • Facts are dated and cited; absent data lowers confidence, never the score (absence isn’t evidence of bad).

No affiliate relationship with this vendor.

Legitimacy signals

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Official domain
www.bachem.com
Payment
Not disclosed
Third-party testing
Not confirmed
Published COAs
Yes
HQ disclosed
US-CA
Sponsored placement
No

Vendor details

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Founded (claimed)
1971
HQ
US-CA
Address
3132 Kashiwa Street, Torrance, CA 90505, USA
Ships from
US
Ships to
US, international
Categories
Peptides (research-grade catalog) · Amino Acid Derivatives & Reagents · Custom Peptide Synthesis · cGMP Peptide APIs · Generic Peptide APIs (e.g. liraglutide, semaglutide) · Oligonucleotides · Cosmetic Peptides
Grade claimed
research-grade catalog + cGMP / pharmaceutical-grade API
Website
www.bachem.com

WHOIS: Bachem Group was founded in 1971 by Peter Grogg (as Bachem Feinchemikalien AG, Liestal; moved to Bubendorf, Switzerland in 1977, where the parent remains headquartered). Bachem Americas, Inc. is the US subsidiary headquartered in Torrance, CA. Per the official site, the Torrance site joined the Bachem Group in 1996; the Vista, CA site (founded 1987 as part of American Peptide Company) joined the group in 2015 when Bachem Americas acquired American Peptide Company from ILS/Otsuka Chemical. The parent, Bachem Holding AG, is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ticker BANB; US ADR BCHMY). bachem.com

Find them

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Verify you are on www.bachem.com — 2 domain variants exist; this is the one on record as current.

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Products & price

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Product catalog & pricelist

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No data availablePrice-per-mg data has not been collected for this vendor.

Price-per-mg snapshot

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No data availableNo price series collected.

Deals & bulk pricing

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No data availableNo promotional or bulk pricing collected.

Price snapshot

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No data availableRequires price data.

Shipping & fulfillment

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Ships from
US
Ships to
US, international
Domestic shipping
Yes
Ship speed
No data available
Payment
No data available

bachem.com

Watch & alerts

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Quality & COA verification

COA & testing practices

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What this vendor proves about identity, purity & potency

Publishes COAs
policy on record
Third-party tested
not on record
Independent tests tracked
not on record
GMP / ISO claim
vendor-claimed
Bachem is a vertically integrated cGMP API manufacturer and CDMO, not a direct-to-consumer reseller. As a regulated pharmaceutical manufacturer it operates its own quality-control analytics and supplies full batch documentation / Certificates of Analysis with API and catalog orders under cGMP and ICH Q7. It states certifications including FDA registration, EMA approval, ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, and Japanese MHLW foreign-manufacturer accreditation. This is an in-house QC model under accredited quality systems, distinct from the third-party-COA model used by gray-market research-peptide resellers; specific per-lot COAs are not published publicly on a consumer page.

Methods: In-house cGMP quality-control analytics (HPLC, mass spectrometry and full API analytics are standard for a peptide API manufacturer; vendor-stated capabilities reference 'advanced analytical capabilities' and 'comprehensive API analytics'). Specific methods per product are not published on a public consumer page..

COA repository · published lab results

No data availablePer-lot COA records have not been collected.

Independent test results

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No data availableNo independent assays tracked for this vendor.

Authenticity & anti-spoofing

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Official domain: www.bachem.com

Only order from the official domain. Research-chem vendors are frequently impersonated by typosquats — verify the URL before purchase.

Known domain variants

  • bachem.com official · Official corporate domain of Bachem Group; shop.bachem.com hosts the research-catalog storefront.
  • shop.bachem.com official · Research-grade peptide & amino-acid-derivative product catalog storefront (B2B/lab ordering; 7-digit product numbers).
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Reputation & sentiment

Online sentiment

Community signalUGC · disclaimedV13

Forum sentiment: unknown · unverified

A coarse community read, not a measured score. Platforms can be gamed — corroborate.

Reddit & community

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2 community mentions — disclaimed UGC, each linked. Sentiment is reported, not measured.

ThePeptideList (CDMO directory)Positive
Industry CDMO directory profiles Bachem Americas as a Torrance, CA peptide CDMO handling research-scale through commercial/large-scale manufacturing with multiple SPPS reactors and kg-scale capability, and notes it as a multi-category CDMO Leadership Award winner. Directory listing, not a consumer review.
Glassdoor (employee reviews)Mixed2026
Employee sentiment for the Torrance site is broadly positive (~4.3/5): 'family atmosphere', strong benefits; recurring cons are limited career advancement, non-competitive salary at some levels, and overtime expectations. Layer B employer UGC, not a product-quality signal.

Review sites

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4 platforms on record — scores differ by scale; read the notes

Employee reviews for the Torrance site — 4.3/5 (~24% above the pharma/biotech average per Glassdoor). Employer-rating, not a product/consumer signal; unverified snippet.

~148 company-wide employee reviews; common cons cited are limited career advancement and overtime expectations. Employer-rating only; unverified snippet.

Employee reviews for Bachem Americas, Torrance; employer-rating only.

Automated scam-checker verdict 'Very Likely Safe' (domain registered 1996-09-19, valid SSL, high Tranco traffic rank); notes WHOIS-privacy-concealed ownership. NOT a consumer review/rating platform — per VTI methodology, scam-checkers never count toward reviewSites/liveRatings. Supplementary reputation context only, does not change any scored field.

Bachem is a B2B pharmaceutical CDMO and is not reviewed on consumer trust platforms (Trustpilot/ScamAdviser) the way retail research-peptide vendors are. The available external 'reputation' signal is employer reviews (Glassdoor ~4.3/5 for the Torrance site) and industry recognition (CDMO Leadership Awards), not consumer-product reviews. Treat employer ratings as Layer B UGC, not a product-quality signal.

glassdoor.com

User reviews

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No data availableNo first-party reviews have been collected for this vendor.

Press & media

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Bachem acquires American Peptide Company
Bachem (company news) / Manufacturing Chemist / C&EN / DCAT · 2015-02-27
A world market leader from the Basel region — Bachem celebrates 50 years of company history
PharmiWeb.Jobs · 2021
Bachem named a CDMO Leadership Awards winner (multiple categories)
Outsourced Pharma / Life Science Leader (CDMO Leadership Awards) · 2024
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Trust, risk & enforcement

Enforcement & legal history

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Warning letters, raids, shutdowns, BBB actions — cited or omitted

FDA issued a Form 483 (inspectional observations) to Bachem Americas, Inc.'s Vista, CA site on 2023-03-27 (indexed by Redica Systems / PharmaCompass). A Form 483 documents cGMP inspection observations and is a routine event for active pharmaceutical API manufacturers; it is NOT a Warning Letter. The specific observations and the final inspection classification (NAI/VAI/OAI) are not disclosed in the public sources reviewed. The Vista site shows roughly 10 FDA inspections on record, and Bachem's official site states the last FDA audit of its California sites was in 2024. No FDA Warning Letter to Bachem Americas was found.
2023-03-27 · fda 483 · redica.com

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Buyer safety checklist

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  • Publishes COAs
  • Third-party tested
  • Accepts non-crypto payment
  • Has reship / refund policy
  • Clean enforcement record
  • Currently operating

3 of 6 checks clear · derived from vendor-stated data.

Operating status & continuity

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Status
Active
Last confirmed
2026-06-27
US-facing
Yes
Domain history
2 variants on record
Known rebrands / aliases
None on record

Bachem Group was founded in 1971 by Peter Grogg (as Bachem Feinchemikalien AG, Liestal; moved to Bubendorf, Switzerland in 1977, where the parent remains headquartered). Bachem Americas, Inc. is the US subsidiary headquartered in Torrance, CA. Per the official site, the Torrance site joined the Bachem Group in 1996; the Vista, CA site (founded 1987 as part of American Peptide Company) joined the group in 2015 when Bachem Americas acquired American Peptide Company from ILS/Otsuka Chemical. The parent, Bachem Holding AG, is publicly traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ticker BANB; US ADR BCHMY).

If they disappear: prepaid / crypto orders carry no recourse if any research-chem vendor changes domains or shuts down with little notice.

Scam & non-delivery reports

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No data availableCommunity scam/non-delivery reports are not collected for this vendor.
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Compare & discover

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Similar vendors

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No data availableSimilar-vendor matching is not yet computed.

Best value for

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Cross-vendor price ranking is intentionally not computed

The Trust Index rates each vendor against a fixed evidence rubric — it never ranks vendors against each otheror sorts the directory. Naming a “best-value” vendor per compound would require exactly that cross-vendor sort, so we don’t. Compare the cited price-per-mg in the Products & price table yourself, or open a side-by-side comparison.
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Compliance, meta & tools

Jurisdiction & legality

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Ships to
US, international
US-facing
Yes
Gating
Commercial links suppress where a compound is restricted in your region

Commercial CTAs are jurisdiction-gated; reference content stays visible everywhere (RUO).

Independence & disclosure

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Affiliate
No
Sponsored placement
None
Effect on Trust Index
None — sponsorship & affiliate are excluded by construction

No affiliate or sponsorship relationship on record.

FAQ

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What is Bachem Americas?
Bachem Americas, Inc. is the US subsidiary of Bachem Holding AG, a publicly traded (SIX Swiss Exchange: BANB) Swiss peptide and oligonucleotide manufacturer founded in 1971. Bachem Americas operates cGMP manufacturing sites in Torrance and Vista, California, providing custom peptide synthesis, research-grade catalog peptides, and contract development & manufacturing (CDMO) of peptide active pharmaceutical ingredients. It is a B2B pharmaceutical supplier, not a direct-to-consumer research-peptide retailer. Research use only.
Where are Bachem Americas' facilities?
Two cGMP sites in California: Torrance (3132 Kashiwa Street, Torrance, CA 90505) — a small-to-medium-scale peptide-NCE center of excellence (tens of kg capacity, 200+ employees) — and Vista (1271 Avenida Chelsea, Vista, CA 92081) — a medium-to-large-volume commercial API facility (hundreds of kg capacity, 225+ employees). Research use only.
Is Bachem Americas a regulated/audited manufacturer?
Yes. Bachem states FDA registration, EMA approval, ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certification, ICH Q7 cGMP operation, and Japanese MHLW foreign-manufacturer accreditation, and reports its last FDA audit of the California sites was in 2024. FDA records show the Vista site received a Form 483 (routine inspectional observations) on 2023-03-27; a Form 483 is not a Warning Letter, and no Warning Letter to Bachem Americas was found in the sources reviewed. Research use only.

Citable summary (GEO)

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Bachem Americas (www.bachem.com) is a US-facing research-peptide vendor. Publishes certificates of analysis. Has enforcement/disclosure records on file. PeptideCompass Trust Index: Thinly Documented — Cited facts on file, but no allowlisted independent assay yet — a precise index is withheld.. Data is community and dated 2026-06-27. The Trust Index is an evidence-transparency readout of cited facts — not a safety verdict, never sold. Research use only.

JSON-LD: Organization · BreadcrumbList · FAQPage. Computed from cited facts, never sold.

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