Pilot scorecard
NewRhythm scored 2 out of 6 for label disclosure under methodology v1.13, read from the label as captured on 2026-09-27.
60ct variant, Amazon listing B071DZQLPQ.
Two blends. Probiotic Blend gives only an aggregate 50 Billion CFU across 20 organisms, and Premium Prebiotic Fiber Blend gives only a 150 mg total with no ingredients named at all. C2 1, and this is a judgment call worth stating. No ingredient identified on the panel is standardization-dependent: the actives are live organisms, and the prebiotic blend names nothing that requires a marker percentage. The criterion says in terms that a product scores 1 by default when nothing in the formula requires a stated percentage. The uncomfortable consequence is that a blend disclosing no ingredients cannot be shown to need a percentage, so non-disclosure is not penalised here. That non-disclosure is already captured, heavily, by criterion 1, and scoring it twice would double-count one failure. Flagged for review.
No reasoning recorded.
All 20 organisms are named to genus and species only, most of them abbreviated (L. acidophilus, B. lactis, Pediococcus pentosaceus and so on), with no strain designations anywhere. The listing title and the bottle front both advertise '20 Strains'. Third product in the sample to market strain counts while naming no strains.
The probiotics are an aggregate with no per-organism split and no strain designations, so nothing can be matched to a trial under the attribution rule. On v1.13, the footnote reads 'Contains a minimum of 50 billion live bacteria when manufactured, and provides viable levels until at least the best by date'. The at-manufacture count is a number; the through-expiry assurance is the phrase 'viable levels', which is not a quantity. No delivered dose is established. The contrast with NOW Probiotic-10, whose label commits to a specific figure through the Best By date, is the distinction v1.13 was written to draw. The prebiotic blend discloses no composition.
No publicly accessible third-party certificate of analysis located 2026-09-27 (listing images, brand site, site-scoped and open web search). The bottle front prints '3RD PARTY TESTED' and listing image 6, headed 'We take test seriously', shows specification tables for microbiological and heavy metal contamination with generic passed marks, carrying no laboratory name, no batch or lot number, no numerical results and no date. That is a testing claim without a document behind it, which the methodology excludes explicitly. Recorded as a negative finding, not a claim that none exists.
Serving size 2 veggie capsules and servings per container 30 are both printed on the panel.
Scores are read from the live label, captured by screenshot on the date shown. A score describes what the label discloses. It says nothing about whether the product works, and nothing here was lab-tested.
