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c/coa·posted 2 years ago by u/reflux_report

[Vendor] GL Biochem vs GGPeps on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.5%

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Result first, context after: GL Biochem vs GGPeps on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.5%. Everything below is how it was ordered, stored and sent.

Numbers, in the order they matter: 97.5%.

Net peptide content is the fraction of the powder that is actually peptide once counterion, water and residual solvent are accounted for. A 99% pure acetate salt can still be about 85% peptide by mass.

Area percent is the peak area of your compound over the total integrated area, at one wavelength, on one gradient. It is a relative measure of what the detector saw, not a mass fraction of the vial.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/laila_wojcik2.2k points·2 years ago·edited

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/certified_referenceMOD1.3k points·2 years ago

Reminder: a question about a document is not an accusation about a supplier, and posts that blur the two get retitled.

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u/soren_zamora936 points·2 years ago

Area percent or net peptide content? They answer different questions.

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u/noor_cardoso1.3k points·2 years ago

Area percent or net peptide content?

Adding the bit that always gets missed: the lot on the vial has to match the lot on the page, or none of this applies to your material.

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u/janek_ferrari294 points·2 years ago·edited

Yes — and the reason to ask for the whole page is that the interesting parts are the ones people crop out to fit a screenshot.

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u/meera_sandvik0 points·2 years ago

Yes — and the reason to ask for the whole page is that the interesting parts are the ones people crop out to fit a screenshot.

Agreed, and the practical version is: ask for the itemised table. If it exists, you get it.

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u/reflux_reportOP1 point·2 years ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch28881 points·2 years 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/reflux_reportOP369 points·2 years 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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u/teodor_lokken535 points·2 years ago

My first certificate had a compound name, a percentage and a logo. I thought that was normal. It is not, and now I know what to ask for.

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u/amylin_amyamylin142 points·2 years ago

Right, and net peptide content is where the counterion and the water go. Both numbers can be honest and very different.

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u/yara_antonsen88 points·2 years ago

What does the method line actually say? Not the technique — the column and the gradient.

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u/meera_sandvik35 points·2 years ago

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/reflux_reportOP33 points·2 years ago

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

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