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c/coa·submitted 1 months ago by u/india_generic_g

identity and quantity are two questions and most COAs answer one

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identity and quantity are two questions and most COAs answer one. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Asked for the storage condition behind the stability statement. Got it in a sentence. It is a two-line email and almost nobody sends it. My first certificate had a compound name, a…

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u/cesar_ivaturi22 points·1 months ago

Yes. The structure of the document matters at least as much as the number printed on it.

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u/honest_syringe246 points·1 months ago

Spent four months confusing area% and mass% in every post I made here. One explainer thread and it clicked permanently.

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u/india_generic_gOP4 points·1 months ago

That is the catalogue certificate rather than the batch-specific one. Same layout, completely different status.

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u/meera_sandvik1 point·1 months ago

Ask what the stability statement was written against — temperature, light, and whether it was the lyophilised powder or the reconstituted solution. Those are three different claims.

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u/anecdata_annie1 point·1 months ago

Are the related substances itemised or is it a single total?

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u/amara_halonen1 point·1 months 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/bastian_aalto1 point·1 months ago

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

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u/clara_restrepo26 points·1 months ago

The PDF creation date being later than the analysis date is usually a re-issue or a re-export. It is worth one question and it is not evidence of anything on its own.

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u/dario_boateng13 points·1 months ago

The document I was worried about turned out to be a re-issue with a later creation date. Asked, got the original, entirely ordinary.

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