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c/coa·submitted 4 days ago by u/asks_dumb_questions

this COA has no batch number and no date. what am i even looking at

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FGP cagrilintide. The document has a compound name, a purity figure, a logo, and a signature image. No batch number. No date of analysis. No method beyond the word HPLC. Is this a COA with fields missing or is it something else wearing a COA's clothes?

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u/certified_referenceQC189 points·3 days ago

the tell is "≥98%" versus "98.4%". a specification is a promise about a product line. a result is a measurement on a run. if the number has no decimal and a greater-than sign, it is the former.

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u/asks_dumb_questionsOP118 points·3 days ago

mine says 98.0% with a decimal, no greater-than. so possibly a real measurement with the identifying fields stripped?

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u/certified_referenceQC134 points·3 days ago

plausibly, and that is the most common case. somebody rebuilt the document for presentation and dropped the boring fields. ask for the original.

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u/asks_dumb_questionsOP96 points·2 days ago·edited

asked. edit next day: they sent the full document within about six hours, batch FGP-2606, dated, with a method line that names the column and the gradient. so: fields were stripped for presentation, original is fine.

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u/coa_janitorMOD112 points·2 days ago

And that is the best possible outcome of this thread. Logging it on the source page — asked for batch-specific documentation, supplied in hours.

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u/amylin_amyamylin68 points·2 days ago

FGP being the reason there is any independent cagri data at all buys them a bit of goodwill from me, but the goodwill is not why the document is fine — the document is fine because they sent it.

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