One product, one panel, one record.
Klaire Labs Ther-Biotic Factor 1, 60 vegetarian capsules (SKU V771-06) — label audit
A single-species concentrate sold through the practitioner channel at a premium, and the brand does not say which strain it is. The panel reads "Lactobacillus rhamnosus — 20 billion CFU" and stops there — the species that contains GG, the most-studied probiotic strain in existence, with nothing on the label to say whether that is what is in the capsule.
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
- 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 Audited 2026-07-31, after the founding cohort of 27 was frozen. It sits outside every D27 denominator this site publishes.
- How deep this went
- Label audit — the lighter pass What the label says, what basis it gives for its CFU number, whether the strains are coded, whether a government label record exists — checked and published. No full claim inventory was written for this SKU. It is a real result, and it is a shallower one than the teardowns above it, which is why the page says so before you weigh it against them.
The Label Verifiability Score for this product
31.8 out of 100
Rank 116 of the 154 products in this audit the rubric can score. This rank is shared with 4 other products — 5 products sit on 31.8 and are tied. They hold the position jointly; no tiebreaker is applied, because every tiebreaker available here would be a number the rubric deliberately refused to weigh, smuggled back in to make a list look tidier.
The score measures one thing: how much of what you are buying this company tells you, and how much of that survives being checked against a source that is not the company. It does not measure whether the product works — this site holds no efficacy data of its own, and 0 of 294 organism slots in the founding cohort carry a strain with a human randomised trial for any male-specific outcome, so nobody in this category has evidence that would support a ranking by effect.
Computed over 86% of the rubric by weight — the share of the five questions below this record could answer. The remaining question is unanswered, and unanswered is not nought: it leaves the divisor rather than dragging the score down. That share travels with the number and is never dropped — this score over 86% of the weight and the same score over all of it are different claims.
| Component | Weight | What was counted, and where | Fraction | Weight × fraction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strain identity printed on the panel | 0.24 | 0 of 1 organism slot carries a printed strain designator. | 0 / 1 = 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Per-organism amount printed | 0.20 | 1 of 1 organism slot has an amount of its own; the rest are inside a blend total. | 1 / 1 = 1.0000 | 0.2000 |
| What the CFU count is measured against | 0.22 | Potency basis "none-stated": CFU figure printed yes, single basis stated no, basis reaches expiry no — 1 of 3. | 1 / 3 = 0.3333 | 0.073333 |
| Printed designators that lead to a human trial | 0.20 | 0 of 1 checked organism slot resolves to at least one human randomised trial under the designator exactly as printed. This counts whether the identity leads to a trial, never what the trial found. | 0 / 1 = 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
| Certification confirmed at the issuer’s own register | 0.14 | Every certification on this record is brand-asserted with the register unreachable, or not yet queried. An unreachable register is a fact about the verification infrastructure, not about this brand, so it may not move its position. | Not answered | — excluded from the divisor, not counted as nought |
0.273333 — the last column added up — divided by 0.86, the weight this record could answer, is 0.3178. Multiplied by 100 and rounded to one decimal, that is the 31.8 above.
See this product’s row in the full ranking, alongside the other 153 scored products, or read what each of the five components asks and how to check it .
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 | Lactobacillus rhamnosus — 20 billion CFU |
| What that count is measured against | No basis stated |
| Strain designators | None — species only |
| Organism slots transcribed here | 1 — the full panel |
| Marketed as | Unisex |
There is nothing to quote, and the absence was checked rather than assumed. No "at expiration date" and no "at time of manufacture" language appears on the product detail page. The full DSLD 281254 JSON was searched for the string "expir" and it is absent; the only "manufactur" hit is the boilerplate "made in GMP and ISO 9001:2008 registered facility". The 20 billion CFU has no time anchor at all. Storage: "Refrigerate with the lid tightly closed to prevent moisture from entering the bottle."
The panel’s own words on potency, verbatim.
A CFU number appears with no temporal basis of any kind. A count with no basis is not a quantity; there is no date at which it is claimed to be true.
The panel names species only, with no strain designator anywhere. A species name is not a claim: the trials in this field are of strains, and a species can contain thousands.
| Organism as printed | Designator as printed | Quantity as printed | What the designator resolves to | The query we ran |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lactobacillus rhamnosus (correct name: Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus) | — none printed | 20 billion CFU | No designator printed | — |
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 — sfi-ther-biotic-factor-1-pdp-2026-07-31https://us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits. captured Fetched directly, HTTP 200. The full Supplement Facts panel is in the page HTML rather than an image, which is why the live panel rather than the government record is the primary source here. Source for the price, the count, the serving, the other-ingredients list, the marketing copy, and the current 220 mg blend figure. Legal entity per the site footer: "KLAIRE LABS (a trademark of ProThera Inc. d/b/a SFI Health)".
- NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database record — DSLD 281254 (opens in a new tab) captured UPC 7 09616 77106 8, the hard match to this SKU. Independent government confirmation that the ingredient row is species-level only. Also the artefact behind two findings that live nowhere else: the full record JSON contains no "expir" string, and the label statement cites an ISO 9001:2008 registered facility. Older records 264725 and 32533 are both off market. Its milligram figure is superseded by the live panel and is not cited as current.
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.
For this product specifically, 0 organism slots carry a strain with a human RCT under the exact designator printed on the label.
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
$0.70 a day at the dose the label itself instructs.
- Price
- $41.99 USD
- What that buys
- 60-capsule bottle (60 servings, 1 capsule daily)
- Price checked
- — the source we read it fromhttps://us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.
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.
| Programme | Status at the issuer | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Bare formulation adjectives (vegetarian, non-GMO, allergen statements, no synthetic colours or preservatives) | Not checked | 31 July 2026 |
| ISO 9001:2008 registered facility | Brand-asserted, unverified | 31 July 2026 |
Bare formulation adjectives (vegetarian, non-GMO, allergen statements, no synthetic colours or preservatives)
We have not queried this register for this product. It does not mean the product holds nothing.
The page claims "Vegetarian and non-GMO", "Made without the following common allergens…" and "No synthetic colors, flavors, or preservatives." All are bare adjectives with no issuer behind them. There is no NSF mark, no USP mark, no Informed Choice and no BSCG. Nothing was refuted here because nothing was claimed that a register could answer.
ISO 9001:2008 registered facility
The badge is displayed, but the register could not be reached to confirm it. We call this unverified, not false.
The DSLD label statement reads "This product was made in GMP and ISO 9001:2008 registered facility" with no registrar named and no certificate number, so there is no issuer to query. Worth stating separately: ISO 9001:2008 was superseded by ISO 9001:2015 and withdrawn in 2018. A current label still citing the 2008 edition dates the artwork by at least seven years.
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 species-only-labelling-from-a-precision-positioned-practitioner-brand
A single-organism product that will not name the organism's strain, sold at a premium through a channel whose entire premise is precision. L. rhamnosus is the species of GG (ATCC 53103) and HN001; the label says neither. Strains matchable to a human RCT from the label alone: 0 of 1.
The record: Live panel at us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1, verbatim, 2026-07-31; DSLD 281254 ingredient row, species-level only — open it (opens in a new tab)
Finding 2 cfu-basis-silent
The only number on the panel has no expiry and no manufacture anchor. Checked against the full DSLD record JSON, not just the rendered page: the string "expir" does not appear.
The record: DSLD 281254 full JSON searched for "expir" (absent) and "manufactur" (GMP boilerplate only), 2026-07-31 — open it (opens in a new tab)
Finding 3 iso-9001-2008-cited-on-current-artwork
The label statement claims manufacture in a "GMP and ISO 9001:2008 registered facility". That edition was superseded by ISO 9001:2015 and withdrawn in 2018. No registrar and no certificate number are named, so there is nothing to check either.
The record: DSLD 281254 label statement, verbatim, 2026-07-31 — open it (opens in a new tab)
Finding 4 species-level-benefit-attribution
Marketing copy reads "L. rhamnosus provides exceptional gastrointestinal and immune support" — attributing benefits at species level, which is precisely the inference the strain-specificity literature warns against, on a product that discloses no strain.
The record: us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1, verbatim, 2026-07-31 — open ithttps://us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.
Finding 5 panel-drift-between-the-live-label-and-the-government-record
The live panel reads "Probiotic Blend in a base of inulin — 220 mg"; DSLD's 2023 transcription reads "Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Powder — 100 mg". The panel has been revised since the record was entered. Cite the live panel, not the DSLD milligram figure — and note that the 20 billion CFU is common to both.
The record: Live SFI panel versus DSLD 281254 ingredient row, both read 2026-07-31 — open it (opens in a new tab)
Finding 6 intactic-is-proprietary-and-unverified
The delivery technology carrying the acid-protection claim is brand-described and brand-owned. No independent verification was found in this pass. Recorded as unverified, not as refuted.
The record: us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1 other-ingredients list, 2026-07-31 — open ithttps://us.sfihealth.com/v771-06-ther-biotic-factor-1 — Address given, not linked: this site does not link out to the products it audits.
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.
- Bare formulation adjectives (vegetarian, non-GMO, allergen statements, no synthetic colours or preservatives) status
- The page claims "Vegetarian and non-GMO", "Made without the following common allergens…" and "No synthetic colors, flavors, or preservatives." All are bare adjectives with no issuer behind them. There is no NSF mark, no USP mark, no Informed Choice and no BSCG. Nothing was refuted here because nothing was claimed that a register could answer.
- ISO 9001:2008 registered facility status
- The DSLD label statement reads "This product was made in GMP and ISO 9001:2008 registered facility" with no registrar named and no certificate number, so there is no issuer to query. Worth stating separately: ISO 9001:2008 was superseded by ISO 9001:2015 and withdrawn in 2018. A current label still citing the 2008 edition dates the artwork by at least seven years.
- A men’s-versus-women’s label diff
- The same brand’s women’s SKU has not been compared against this panel.
- Which strain of L. rhamnosus is in the capsule
- Not disclosed, on the live panel or in the government record. For a multi-strain blend an undisclosed strain is one unknown among many; for a single-organism concentrate the strain identity is the product. This is the decisive gap on this SKU and it is structural, not an oversight in the audit.
- Any time anchor for the 20 billion CFU
- Absent, and the absence was checked. The full DSLD 281254 JSON contains no "expir" string, and the product page carries no at-manufacture or at-expiry language. The number stands alone.
- Independent verification of the InTactic delivery technology
- InTactic is proprietary and brand-described. No independent verification of the acid-protection claim was found in this pass, and none is asserted in either direction.
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.
The whole Supplement Facts panel is two lines:
Probiotic Blend in a base of inulin — 220 mg Lactobacillus rhamnosus — 20 billion CFU
That is it. One organism, named to species, with no strain designator anywhere — no ATCC, no DSM, no CNCM, no NCIMB, no GG, no HN001. The government’s own transcription agrees: species-level only.
This matters more here than it would almost anywhere else. L. rhamnosus is the species that contains GG (ATCC 53103) — the most-studied probiotic strain in existence — and HN001. A buyer paying a practitioner-channel premium for a concentrated L. rhamnosus formula has no way to learn whether either of those is what is in the capsule. Strains matchable to a human RCT from the label alone: 0 of 1, and that is structurally unanswerable rather than merely unanswered.
The marketing copy then does the thing the strain-specificity literature exists to warn against: “L. rhamnosus provides exceptional gastrointestinal and immune support” — a species-level benefit attribution on a product that discloses no strain.
The 20 billion CFU has no time anchor either. No at-expiry, no at-manufacture. That absence was checked rather than assumed: the complete DSLD record JSON was searched for the string expir and it is not there. The product ships with temperature-control packs and instructs refrigeration, so potency is plainly storage-dependent — with no guarantee attached to either end of shelf life.
One artefact-dating detail. The label statement claims manufacture in a “GMP and ISO 9001:2008 registered facility”. ISO 9001:2008 was superseded in 2015 and withdrawn in 2018. No registrar is named and no certificate number is given, so there is nothing to check — but a current label citing a seven-years-dead standard edition is its own kind of tell.
What is genuinely fine: the price, the count and the serving all agree with each other, and at $0.70 a day this is the cheapest product in its batch. There is no unit-price misstatement here. And SFI’s Ther-Biotic line has a Women’s formula, a Senior formula and a nursing-mothers formula — and nothing for men, which is worth noting on a site about men’s probiotics: the practitioner channel does not treat the category as real.