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c/coa·submitted 3 months ago by u/first_hundred

reading certificate of analysis threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

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reading certificate of analysis threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. UV at 214nm sees the peptide bond and picks up almost everything; at 280nm you are looking at aromatics only. Which wavelength the number came from is part of the number. LC-MS gives you…

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u/certified_referenceMOD154 points·3 months ago

Removed — cropped document. Post the whole page or do not post it; the fields people crop are the fields that matter.

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u/first_hundredOP118 points·3 months ago

Removed — cropped document.

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

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u/soren_zamora79 points·3 months ago

Careful — "the metadata looks odd" is a reason to ask a question, not a conclusion. Re-issues are ordinary.

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u/purity_pedantanalytical40 points·3 months ago·edited

Careful — "the metadata looks odd" is a reason to ask a question, not a conclusion.

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

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u/valeria_karlsen24 points·3 months ago

Batch number and date of analysis, are both on there?

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u/aurel_boateng7 points·3 months ago

the lot on the vial has to match the lot on the page

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u/first_hundredOP43 points·3 months ago

Did you get the chromatogram or only the summary line?

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u/priya_palacios91 points·3 months ago

I would not read a rounded figure as evasive. Plenty of documents round to one decimal as house style.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa39 points·3 months ago

a certificate with no method line is decorative

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u/teodor_jansen102 points·3 months ago

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

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u/isabela_nilsen41 points·3 months ago

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

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u/sofia_danquah0 points·3 months ago

Pushing back a little: a missing field is usually presentation, not concealment. Ask for the full document before drawing conclusions.

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