Glossary

Product Insights Panel (PIP): The embeddable display that publishes your lab test results on your product pages. Available as an inline panel, a sticker, or a full embedded report.

Comprehensive Testing Report: The full report a shopper sees when they open the panel, or that you embed directly with the full report display. It lists results by category with statuses, amounts, dates, and the testing lab.

Inline panel: The default display: a compact horizontal bar that opens the full report when clicked.

Sticker: A small badge designed to sit on a product image. It can be collapsed by the shopper and opens the same report as the inline panel.

Full testing report: The Comprehensive Testing Report embedded directly in a page rather than opened from a click.

Analyte: A specific substance that was measured, for example lead or a particular pesticide.

Category: A group of related analytes shown together, for example Heavy Metals or Pesticides.

Test: A lab analysis that produces results for the analytes in a category. You enable tests to publish their results.

Spec, or limit: The threshold you set for a result. It determines whether a result is shown as in spec or out of spec.

In spec: A result that meets the limit you set. Shown as passing.

Out of spec: A result that does not meet your limit. Shown with a muted marker and not counted as passing. We recommend not enabling these.

No spec: A result for which you have not set a limit. It is shown, with nothing to compare it against.

Not detected: The substance was below detectable levels in the third-party lab testing.

COA (Certificate of Analysis): The lab document your results come from. The panel pulls directly from your COAs.

Slug: The part of a product page URL that identifies the product. For yourstore.com/products/whey-protein, the slug is whey-protein. Slugs tell the panel which product belongs on a page.

Product ID: A product's identifier in Light Labs, found in its URL. Used to point a display at a specific product, for example on landing pages.

External ID: An identifier you assign to match a specific store variant, such as a Shopify variant, to a set of results. Used so the panel shows the right results for the selected variant.

Auto publish in-spec results: A per product setting that automatically publishes a test once all of its results are in spec, after a 7 day holding period.

Show upper spec only: A per product setting that shows how a result compares to your upper limit instead of the exact measured amount.

Contextualization (heavy metals): The everyday-food comparison shown for lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury, to help shoppers interpret the amount detected.