Chinese Peptide Company (revision 13)

Chinese Peptide Company Co., Ltd. (trading as CPC; chinesepeptidecompany.net) is a peptide manufacturer trading as CPC from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, incorporated in 2001, with a catalogue spanning research peptides and custom synthesis and a documented history in the peptide-chemistry sector.^[1][2]

The organisation is one of twenty covered on PeptidePedia under Project:Vendor notability. Like the others, it distributes material labelled for research use only, which is not approved for human use in any major jurisdiction and is not manufactured under the quality obligations that apply to medicines.^[3]

Incorporated in 2001, the organisation is one of the two oldest covered on this wiki and predates the research-peptide retail market substantially.^[1] That history is the strongest element of its notability case: an entity with two decades of continuous operation in peptide chemistry is describable from more than its own marketing, and its name appears in technical contexts unconnected with the research-compound trade.

The name is generic to the point of being a claim: "Chinese Peptide Company" reads as a description of a category rather than an identifier. Editors have discussed whether an encyclopedia should use it as an article title at all, given the risk that a reader takes it as a generic reference; the conclusion was that the registered legal name is the registered legal name, and that a hatnote is the appropriate remedy.