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c/coa·submitted 10 months ago by u/zeynep_zielinski

[Lab] 15th independent test on QSC, and the trend is the interesting part

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking certificate of analysis against ApoB for 39 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here. Caveats up front: one person, one…

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u/certified_referenceMOD56 points·10 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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[deleted]40 points·10 months ago

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u/low_appetite_lisa27 points·10 months ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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u/tove_ogunleye17 points·10 months ago

This is the correct framing. The COA structure matters as much as the number.

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u/amira_dumitru5 points·10 months ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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u/cesar_ivaturi2 points·10 months ago

PDF metadata is checkable in fifteen seconds

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u/tomas_lehtinen17 points·10 months ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/amara_halonen9 points·10 months ago

Yeah, 96.8% area is not the problem, the missing impurity breakdown is the problem.

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u/freya_baptista3 points·10 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/marisol_frisk-30 points·10 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 41 weeks to accept.

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u/sunday_shot_sal1 point·10 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/hugo_bergstrom39 points·10 months ago

Did they give you the chromatogram or just the summary line?

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch26 points·10 months ago

the counterion is part of the mass you paid for

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u/emeka_beaulieu24 points·10 months ago

What is the method line say? Not the technique, the actual method.

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u/karma_irrelevant18 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree. Mass% and area% are answering different questions on the same document.

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u/nikhil_lindqvist14 points·10 months ago

the batch number or it did not happen

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