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Editorial Policy

1. Every number carries its source and its sample size. A rating never appears without the count behind it, because a five from three buyers and a 4.6 from twenty-seven thousand are not the same claim.
2. Prices carry the date they were checked. Anything older than seven days is labeled as last checked rather than shown as current.
3. We say when we have not verified something. A manufacturer claiming a product is pet-safe is recorded as a manufacturer claim, not as a fact, because there is no legal standard behind the phrase.
4. Community claims are counted, not paraphrased loosely. When we say people report something, we say how many, out of how many comments read, and where.
5. Rankings are generated from data, not written. If a product we like loses on cost per ounce, it loses.
6. Corrections are visible. When we get something wrong we fix it and say what changed.

What We Will Not Publish

• A test result nobody ran.
• A quote nobody said.
• A rating with no source.
• A frequently asked question that nobody asked.