LactiGo and drug testing

What Informed Sport certification means, how to check the batch on your tube, where carnosine sits under WADA and Sport Integrity Australia rules, and what certification does not promise.

The short version

LactiGo is Informed Sport certified. Every production batch is tested by an accredited laboratory for substances banned in sport before it is released, and the batch list is public. Carnosine itself is not a prohibited substance under the WADA code. If you compete under Sport Integrity Australia, WADA, or a sporting body's own rules, the standard advice applies: check the batch on your tube against the live listing, keep the tube, and treat every product the same way.

What Informed Sport certification means

Informed Sport is a certification program run by LGC, a UK-based laboratory group. For a product to carry the mark, the manufacturer's facility is audited, and then every batch is tested for a panel of more than 250 substances banned in sport before release. Testing is done under ISO 17025 accreditation, which is the international standard for testing laboratories. Products are also blind-sampled from the market and retested.

LactiGo's live listing, with every certified batch number, is at sport.wetestyoutrust.com.

How to check the batch on your tube

1. Find the batch or lot number. It is printed on the crimp or the box, near the expiry date.
2. Go to sport.wetestyoutrust.com and search for LactiGo.
3. Open the product and confirm your batch number appears in the certified list.
4. Keep the tube and a photo of the batch number until the competition period is over. Anti-doping bodies expect athletes to keep records of what they used.

If your batch is not listed, do not use it in competition and contact LactiGo. Certification covers batches, not the brand in general.

WADA and Sport Integrity Australia

• Carnosine is a naturally occurring dipeptide found in muscle and in meat. It is not on the WADA Prohibited List and never has been.
• Beta-alanine, its precursor, is not prohibited either.
• Magnesium, glycerin, and the other ingredients in LactiGo are standard cosmetic ingredients with no anti-doping relevance. The full list.
• Sport Integrity Australia runs the Australian anti-doping program and recommends that athletes use only batch-tested products. Its Sport Integrity app lets you check substances and medications. LactiGo's batch testing through Informed Sport is the kind of evidence it asks athletes to look for.
• Topical use changes nothing. Anti-doping rules cover what enters the body by any route.

What certification does not mean

Certification means a batch was tested and nothing on the banned list was found. It does not mean the product works, and it does not mean it is approved by any sporting body or regulator. Informed Sport tests for contamination, not for effect. The evidence on whether LactiGo does anything is a separate question, covered on the research page, where the trials are described one by one.

It also does not transfer responsibility. Under the strict liability rule in the WADA code, an athlete is responsible for what is in their body regardless of how it got there. Batch testing lowers the risk; it does not remove it. That is true of every supplement and every topical product.

Horses and racing

LactiGo is sold for people. Carnosine research in horses exists, including the 2021 Thoroughbred study on the research page, and racing authorities have their own rules on substances and on treatment withholding times before a race. Owners and trainers should check with their racing authority and vet before using any product on a horse that competes. Nothing on this site is advice on horses.

Checked 23 October 2026. Prices and policies are LactiGo's and may change. This page does not claim LactiGo will change your performance or recovery. Not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.