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c/compounding·submitted 1 year ago by u/hugo_bergstrom

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about API source is guesswork

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Something I keep coming back to: unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about API source is guesswork. The intake asked me three questions and none of them were about my history. That told me everything I needed to know about the model. Switched between two compounded preparations and the concentration on the…

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u/jonas_eriksen16 points·1 year ago

salt forms are the recurring argument and the answer is boring

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u/lukas_delgado23 points·1 year ago

Potency and sterility testing on the finished preparation are separate from any certificate covering the starting material. Ask which you are being shown.

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u/hugo_bergstromOP16 points·1 year ago

Correcting my own comment: the shortage status changed in the interim, so the arrangement I described no longer applies.

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u/vikram_mbeki9 points·1 year ago

This. Compounded preparations carry no equivalence claim, and treating them as generics is a category error people make constantly.

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u/niels_roos9 points·1 year ago

Correcting my own comment: the shortage status changed in the interim, so the arrangement I described no longer applies.

Adding one thing — ask for the facility name. Most will give it, and the ones that will not have answered you.

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u/runa_grimaldi3 points·1 year ago

if a clinic will not name the facility, that is your answer

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