three years of regret threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: three years of regret threads, summarised so you do not have to read them.
Where a supplier has no independent testing on file, that is a statement about the evidence and not about their conduct. Saying it the second way is how this board would stop being useful.
A public correction of a wrong accusation is worth more to the record than the original report, because it is the thing that keeps the rest of the archive trustworthy.
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chose
This is why the board exists. Nobody else publishes this part.
stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure
That reads as a warning about a documented supplier and the events you describe are about a shop nobody has any record of.
I would not generalise from one bad month to a rule. The rest of your process sounds fine.