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c/coa·submitted 1 year ago by u/reflux_report

three years of water content threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: three years of water content threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Why the same vial can honestly produce three different numbers. Purity by area percent is relative to what the detector saw on one gradient at one wavelength. Net peptide content…

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u/emeka_beaulieu518 points·1 year ago

Not quite. Two labs with different gradients can resolve a close-eluting impurity differently and both be reporting honestly.

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[deleted]211 points·1 year ago

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u/dead_space_doug86 points·1 year ago

Did you get the chromatogram or only the summary line?

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u/neha_erdogan59 points·1 year ago

Started keeping a folder of every certificate I have been sent. The ones that itemise impurities are a small group and they are mostly the same suppliers.

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u/cormac_pereira-10 points·1 year ago

a total of 0.4% tells you less than four named impurities adding to 0.6%

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u/yusuf_nakamura107 points·1 year ago

Agreed on asking for the storage condition. It is one line and it changes how you read the entire stability claim.

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u/honest_syringe2470 points·1 year ago

Did you ask for the batch-specific document, or is this the catalogue one?

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u/neha_erdogan78 points·1 year ago

Water content 3.8%, acetate 6.2%, purity 99%, net peptide about 90% of label weight. All four numbers honest, and I had to read it twice.

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u/honest_syringe2439 points·1 year ago·edited

Cosigning. The batch identifier is load-bearing, and a certificate that cannot be tied to the vial in your hand is not about your vial.

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u/anya_correia0 points·1 year ago

Not quite.

This is the sentence to take away. The rest of the thread is footnotes to it.

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u/sofia_ferreira1 point·1 year ago

Small fix — 214nm, not 280nm. It matters here because the impurity you are asking about barely absorbs at the longer wavelength.

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u/step_therapy_s408 points·1 year ago

net peptide content and purity are two different numbers on the same vial

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