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c/coa·submitted 2 years ago by u/santiago_szabo

[Discussion] the related substances advice in here is 3 years out of date

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the related substances advice in here is 3 years out of date. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. 3 years — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend. Related substances itemised individually is a much stronger document than a single total, because it tells…

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u/amylin_amyamylin889 points·2 years ago

The PDF creation date being later than the analysis date is usually a re-issue or a re-export. It is worth one question and it is not evidence of anything on its own.

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[deleted]656 points·2 years ago

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u/ismael_eriksen169 points·2 years ago

Are the related substances itemised or is it a single total?

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u/zaid_balogun69 points·2 years ago

Net peptide content is the fraction of the powder that is actually peptide once counterion, water and residual solvent are accounted for. A 99% pure acetate salt can still be about 85% peptide by mass.

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u/santiago_szaboOP0 points·2 years ago

Area percent or net peptide content? They answer different questions.

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u/santiago_szaboOP0 points·2 years ago

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

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u/santiago_szaboOP0 points·2 years ago

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

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u/teodor_jansen115 points·2 years ago

Disagree that a lower number is automatically worse. A conservative claim that survives testing is worth more than an optimistic one that does not.

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u/milos_vanhecke662 points·2 years ago

net peptide content and purity are two different numbers on the same vial

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u/amira_dumitru414 points·2 years 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/anya_moreau473 points·2 years ago

Yes — and the reason to ask for the whole page is that the interesting parts are the ones people crop out to fit a screenshot.

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u/rania_okonkwo225 points·2 years ago

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

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u/zaid_balogun73 points·2 years ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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