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c/coa·posted 7 months ago by u/receptor_bias_rick

my TSH moved and I cannot work out whether area percent is why

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Quick one. Canada here.

certificate of analysis works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 8 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/certified_referenceMOD117 points·7 months ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/receptor_bias_rickOP59 points·7 months ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/milos_trevino20 points·7 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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u/anya_correia31 points·7 months ago

Not to be pedantic but batch and batch are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/halima_boateng72 points·7 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/halima_boateng35 points·7 months ago

redact your own name, not the vendor's batch details

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch2857 points·7 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

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u/amylin_amyamylin24 points·7 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

Adding to this: COA is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/fatima_wojcik20 points·7 months ago

the related substances line is where the story is

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u/low_appetite_lisa38 points·7 months ago

the related substances line is where the story is

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u/andres_restrepo34 points·7 months ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/sofia_danquah17 points·7 months ago

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

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u/laila_wojcik12 points·7 months ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/receptor_bias_rickOP6 points·7 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/step_therapy_s10 points·7 months ago

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

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u/tuva_aalto3 points·7 months ago

Not to be pedantic but batch and purity are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/valeria_karlsen2 points·7 months ago

the counterion is part of the mass you paid for

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u/dead_space_doug0 points·7 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/laila_yilmaz-30 points·7 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

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u/wanjiru_varga-36 points·7 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

Adding to this: purity is doing more work than the comment implies.

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