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c/coa·submitted 1 year ago by u/purity_pedant

[Vendor] HJ vs QYB on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.0%

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Posting this because the title is the whole finding — HJ vs QYB on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.0% — and a number without its method is a rumour. 97.0%. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour. Started keeping a folder of every certificate I have been sent. The ones that…

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u/nikhil_lindqvist299 points·1 year ago

Related substances itemised individually is a much stronger document than a single total, because it tells you the shape of the impurity profile rather than its size.

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u/noor_cardoso244 points·1 year ago·edited

That is not what the method line says. It names the technique; it does not certify the operator.

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u/anya_correia61 points·1 year ago

Water content 3.8%, acetate 6.2%, purity 99%, net peptide about 90% of label weight. All four numbers honest, and I had to read it twice.

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u/step_therapy_s17 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/coa_janitorMOD182 points·1 year 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/meera_sandvik136 points·1 year ago

LC-MS gives you identity; UV purity gives you a relative quantity. A document with the first and not the second, or the reverse, is answering half the question.

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u/coa_collectorarchivist102 points·1 year ago

redact your own name, never the batch details

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u/priya_palacios62 points·1 year ago

Is water content on the document? It changes your concentration arithmetic.

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u/ghrp_history41 points·1 year ago

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

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