One product, one panel, one record.
CVS Health Daily Probiotic 24 Billion CFU Capsules — label audit
Every route to this label failed at once. cvs.com returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching; a live browser session against the same URL was served a geo-restriction interstitial instead of the product page; the Internet Archive holds no capture of it; and the NIH label database has no CVS record at 24 billion CFU across five query spellings. This page is marked, not scored, and nothing about this product's panel is characterised anywhere on it.
This page is an audit of a label. It records what this product’s panel discloses, what of that could be checked against a primary record, and what could not. The score below ranks this product on that disclosure and on nothing else.
The record this page rests on
- NIH label record
- No NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record is on file for this product in this teardown.
- Label read on
- The most recent dated artefact behind this page. Labels change; this is how old our reading of it is.
- Cohort
- Addendum — outside the founding denominators Reached 2026-07-31, after the founding cohort of 27 was frozen. It sits outside every D27 denominator the site publishes, and because no label surface was recovered it contributes no organism slots to any denominator either.
- How deep this went
- Label not recovered The SKU was reached, but no label surface could be recovered. That is itself a finding about this category, and it is why this page exists rather than being quietly dropped.
- What did not survive verification
- Part of this page was refuted or could not be reproduced No label surface was recovered for this SKU, so this page is marked rather than scored. Four independent routes were tried and all four failed on the same day - a direct HTTPS fetch with a browser user agent returned HTTP 403; a live browser session against the same URL was served CVS's geo-restriction interstitial rather than the product page; the Internet Archive returned HTTP 429 from its availability API and empty result sets from two CDX queries, with a broad query timing out at HTTP 504; and the NIH label database holds no CVS record at 24 billion CFU across five query spellings. Consequently this page publishes no strain list, no strain-designator count, no CFU figure, no potency basis, no certification status, no cost per day and no men's-versus-women's reading. Every one of those fields is unknown, and unknown is not the same as absent. One thing must be stated explicitly because it would be easy to borrow by mistake - CVS at brand level does state at-expiry CFU floors on several of its store-brand probiotics (DSLD 278547 reads, verbatim, "contains a minimum of 3 billion live bacteria cells per capsule when manufactured, and provided a minimum concentration of 1 billion at expiration date", and DSLD 276003 carries the designator B. infantis NI313), and none of that may be attributed to this product. Whether the 24 billion SKU does either is unknown. This record needs a US-resident browser session or an in-store photograph of the carton before anything about the product itself can be said.
The Label Verifiability Score for this product
No score and no rank
No Label Verifiability Score exists for this product, and none is estimated. The score is a count of things printed on a label; no label surface for this SKU could be recovered, so there is no panel to count and nothing to score. This is not a low score and it is not a placeholder for one — the number does not exist, and inventing one would be the exact failure this site documents.
The product stays in the audit and stays on this site. It is listed, unranked, on the label audit, and it is absent from the ranking rather than placed at the bottom of it: an unanswered question is not a bad answer, and ranking it as though it were would be a number about our reach dressed up as a fact about the product.
| Component | Weight | What was counted, and where | Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strain identity printed on the panel | 0.24 | No organism slot has been transcribed from this panel, so there is nothing to count. | Not answered |
| Per-organism amount printed | 0.20 | No organism slot has been transcribed from this panel, so there is nothing to count. | Not answered |
| What the CFU count is measured against | 0.22 | The potency basis was not cleared for this product. That is a gap in our teardown, not a finding that the label states none. | Not answered |
| Printed designators that lead to a human trial | 0.20 | No organism slot has been transcribed from this panel, so there is nothing to count. | Not answered |
| Certification confirmed at the issuer’s own register | 0.14 | No certifier register has been queried for this product. Not checked is not the same as holds nothing. | Not answered |
No label surface for this SKU could be recovered, so there is no panel to score. It is listed and unranked. That a currently-sold product has no retrievable label is itself a finding about this category, which is why the SKU is not deleted.
The ranking of the 154 products that can be scored is on the home page, with what the score measures and what it does not.
What this label discloses
Everything in this table is what the product itself states — on the printed panel, on the brand’s own page, or in the label record the manufacturer filed. Nothing in it is checked yet; checking is the next section.
| Disclosure | As recorded |
|---|---|
| CFU as printed | No CFU figure recorded |
| What that count is measured against | Not verified |
| Strain designators | Not verified |
| Organism slots transcribed here | 0 — the panel is not transcribed |
| Marketed as | Not verified |
The potency basis was not cleared for this product. This is a gap in our teardown, not a finding about the label.
Whether the panel prints strain designators was not cleared for this product. This is a gap in our teardown, not a finding about the label.
What of that is verifiable
A disclosure is verifiable when a reader can open a record that neither we nor the brand controls and see the same thing. Below is every dated artefact this page rests on. What is absent from this list is not verified, however reasonable it sounds.
- Dated capture of the brand’s own page — cvs-com-prodid-1280195-geo-restriction-2026-07-31https://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-daily-probiotic-24-billion-cfu-capsules-prodid-1280195 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured This is the only dated artefact that exists for this SKU, and what it records is the retrieval failure itself rather than the product. A live browser session was opened against the live product URL and CVS served a geo-restriction interstitial - verbatim, "CVS.com is not available to customers or patients who are located outside of the United States or U.S. territories." A direct HTTPS fetch with a browser user agent, decompressed, returned HTTP 403 to the same URL. It is listed here because the schema requires this page to rest on something dated, and this is honestly what it rests on - no panel, no archive capture, no government record.
How many of its strains have a human trial for what it is sold for
Across the frozen founding cohort, 0 of 294 organism slots (0.0%) carry an organism with a human randomised controlled trial for any male-specific outcome. Not for this product — for all 27 of the founding teardowns, taken together. That is the number to hold against any men’s probiotic, including this one.
Two further founding-cohort figures for context: only 43 of 294 organism slots carry a strain with any human RCT at all under the exact code printed on the label, and only 2 of 27 products have a published human trial of the finished formula — the thing actually in the bottle. All three figures divide by the frozen cohort of 27 teardowns and 294 organism slots, never by every teardown on this site.
A word on what a designator has to clear before it counts here. The organism must be named with the exact strain code that appears in the trial, the trial must be in humans, and the code must return that trial when a reader searches it. A species name does not qualify: the trials in this field are of strains, and a species contains thousands of them.
What it costs per day
What certification it holds, checked at the issuer’s own register
A badge on a bottle is a claim like any other. Every row below was checked — or not checked — at the certifier’s own public register, never at the badge. Across the frozen founding cohort, 2 of 27 products hold a certification we could confirm at the issuer — a founding-cohort figure, not a count over every teardown on this site.
How it differs from the same brand’s women’s version
Across the fourteen same-brand men’s-versus-women’s label diffs run inside the frozen founding cohort, zero men’s or default formulas contain a probiotic strain, identified by designator, that was selected on male-specific evidence. In eight of the fourteen the sex-specific differentiator is a botanical or a mineral, and in five of the fourteen the women’s SKU is better-specified, cheaper, or both — “better-specified” meaning the panel that discloses more, never the panel with more in it. The rule behind each of those counts, and all fourteen pairs classified against it , are published in full. Diffs run on teardowns added since sit outside this fourteen, and outside the sentence above.
Every finding on this page, with the record behind it
Finding 1 every-route-to-this-label-failed-at-once
A direct fetch returns HTTP 403. A live browser session is served a geo-restriction interstitial, not the product page - verbatim, "CVS.com is not available to customers or patients who are located outside of the United States or U.S. territories." The Internet Archive has no capture of the URL. And the federal label database has no record at this potency. A probiotic sold at national scale by the largest pharmacy chain in the United States has no label surface reachable by any verification method tried here. That is a structural statement about what "transparency" means in this category, not a finding about this formula.
The record: Direct HTTPS fetch with browser UA (403); live browser session (geo-restriction interstitial); Wayback availability API (429), CDX exact URL (empty), CDX cvs-daily-probiotic wildcard (empty), broad cvs.com CDX (504); DSLD v9 five query spellings - all 2026-07-31 — open ithttps://www.cvs.com/shop/cvs-daily-probiotic-24-billion-cfu-capsules-prodid-1280195 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.
Finding 2 no-government-label-record-at-twenty-four-billion-while-ten-cvs-records-exist
CVS has at least ten probiotic label records in the NIH database, all of them at 1 to 3 billion CFU. None is at 24 billion. Say it that way rather than "DSLD is missing CVS" - the company's labels are in the database, and this potency is not among them.
The record: DSLD v9 queries "CVS Health probiotic", "CVS Daily Probiotic 24 Billion", "CVS Health Daily Probiotic", "CVS Health 24 Billion", "Daily Probiotic 24 Billion CFU", against records 278547, 278520, 276003, 211325, 239545, 18174, 18178, 18201, 18258, 18259, 18263 - all run 2026-07-31
What we could not verify
Every gap below is published rather than deleted. Most are derived automatically from the empty fields in this page’s own record, so a gap cannot be hidden by leaving a box blank.
- The CFU figure on the panel
- No CFU figure was recorded for this product. Either the panel prints none or it was not transcribed; this teardown does not yet distinguish between the two.
- What the CFU count is measured against
- The potency basis — manufacture, expiry, or nothing at all — was not cleared for this product.
- Whether the panel prints strain designators
- Not cleared for this product.
- The full Supplement Facts panel
- The panel has not been transcribed into this record, so no organism-level count on this page is a count of the label.
- Third-party certification
- No certifier register has been queried for this product. An empty certification list on this page means not checked — it does not mean the product holds nothing.
- A US retail price, and therefore the cost per day
- No price could be verified, and no price is estimated. cvs.com returned HTTP 403 to every automated fetch, and a live browser session against the same URL was served a geo-restriction interstitial rather than the product page - verbatim, "CVS.com is not available to customers or patients who are located outside of the United States or U.S. territories." The Internet Archive has no capture of this URL to fall back on. Nothing about this product's price, including its rough band, is known.
- A men’s-versus-women’s label diff
- The same brand’s women’s SKU has not been compared against this panel.
- The Supplement Facts panel, and therefore the strain list, the strain designators, the per-strain CFU and the CFU basis
- Never recovered. Four independent routes were attempted and all four failed - a direct HTTPS fetch with a browser user agent, decompressed, returned HTTP 403; a live browser session against the same URL loaded, but CVS served a geo-restriction interstitial rather than the product page; the Wayback availability API returned HTTP 429 and two CDX queries (exact URL, then a cvs-daily-probiotic wildcard) returned empty, with a broad cvs.com CDX query returning HTTP 504; and DSLD holds no record at this potency across five query spellings. A US-resident browser session, or an in-store photograph of the carton, is what this record needs.
- A US retail price and a cost per day
- The product page was never reached and no archived copy of it exists. See the price note.
- Any certification or third-party testing claim
- Unknown. Nothing can be said about what this carton claims or does not claim, because the carton and its page were both unreachable. Recorded as unknown, never as "holds none".
- Whether this SKU is marketed to men, to women, or to neither
- Unknown for the same reason. No claim is made here in any direction.
- Any government label record at this potency
- None exists. Five DSLD query spellings were run per the project's absence rule - "CVS Health probiotic", "CVS Daily Probiotic 24 Billion", "CVS Health Daily Probiotic", "CVS Health 24 Billion", "Daily Probiotic 24 Billion CFU". CVS has at least ten probiotic records in DSLD (278547, 278520, 276003, 211325, 239545, and 18174 / 18178 / 18201 / 18258 / 18259 / 18263), and every one of them is at 1 to 3 billion CFU. There is no CVS record anywhere near 24 billion.
How to check every line of this page yourself
Nothing on this page requires trusting us. Every claim above resolves to a record you can open:
- Open the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record linked at the top of this page. It is the label the manufacturer filed, not our transcription of it.
- Compare the CFU line and the suggested-use line against the disclosure table above. If they disagree with us, we are wrong and we want to know.
- Take any strain designator from the panel and run the query printed beside it. The query is published precisely so you can get a different answer than we did.
- Divide the price by the number of days the label’s own dose instructions make the container last. That arithmetic is the whole of the cost-per-day row.
- Search the certifier’s own register for this product, not for the brand. A company can participate in a programme without this product being on its list.
This page is a record of a failure to look, and the failure is published rather than hidden.
There are four ways to read this label without holding the bottle: the retailer’s own product page, a live browser session against that page, the Internet Archive, and the NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database. For this product all four fail.
A direct fetch with a browser user agent returns HTTP 403. A real browser session was opened against
the same live URL and CVS served a geo-restriction interstitial instead of the product page — “CVS.com®
is not available to customers or patients who are located outside of the United States or U.S.
territories.” The Wayback availability API returned 429, an exact-URL CDX query returned empty, a
cvs-daily-probiotic* wildcard returned empty, and a broad cvs.com* query timed out at 504.
There is no archived copy. And five differently-spelled DSLD queries return no CVS record at 24 billion
CFU — CVS has at least ten probiotic records in that database, and every one of them sits at 1 to 3
billion.
So this product is marked, not scored. No strain list. No designator count. No CFU figure and no potency basis. No certification status. No price and no cost per day. No reading on whether it is sold to men. Each of those is unknown, which is a different thing from absent, and this page keeps the two apart.
One temptation has to be named and refused. CVS, at brand level, does some things well. DSLD 278547 (“CVS Health Probiotic”) states both bases with an at-expiry floor, verbatim: “contains a minimum of 3 billion live bacteria cells per capsule when manufactured, and provided a minimum concentration of 1 billion at expiration date.” DSLD 276003 (“CVS Health Digestive Probiotic”) carries an actual strain designator, Bifidobacterium infantis NI313. That is better practice than most branded products this project has torn down. None of it may be attributed to the bottle on this page. Those are different SKUs. Whether the 24 billion product does either is not known.
What would resolve this is small and specific: a browser session from inside the United States, or one photograph of the carton taken in a store. Until one of those exists, the honest thing a site like this can publish about this product is exactly what it could not find out.