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c/coa·posted 1 year ago by u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch28

[Results] 96 weeks on 5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring

Lab Receipts ×3 Long Haul ×1 Clean Column ×1

Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.

The advice on batch in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.

I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.

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u/sig_figs_sammod · analytical1k points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/anya_correia0 points·1 year ago

Metadata check caught a COA that was created in a browser four months after the analysis date. Not evidence of fraud, but worth flagging to WXT.

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u/milos_vanhecke-33 points·1 year ago

Metadata check caught a COA that was created in a browser four months after the analysis date. Not evidence of fraud, but worth flagging to JEEP.

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u/milos_trevino1 point·1 year ago

PDF metadata is checkable in fifteen seconds

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch28OP1 point·1 year ago

Water content was 3.8%, acetate was 6.2%, purity was 99%, but net peptide was only 90% of the label weight. Perfectly honest, just chemistry.

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch28OP1 point·1 year ago

Cosigning. The batch number is load-bearing information.

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u/isabela_nilsen1 point·1 year ago

axis labels included, always

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch28OP1 point·1 year ago

The chromatogram trace is where the real information lives. The summary number is just a headline.

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u/india_generic_g1 point·1 year ago

Did they give you the chromatogram or just the summary line?

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch1 point·1 year ago

This is the correct framing. The COA structure matters as much as the number.

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u/kavya_verhoeven1 point·1 year ago

Cosigning. The batch number is load-bearing information.

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u/sig_figs_sammod · analytical1 point·1 year ago

axis labels included, always

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u/cato_achebe1 point·1 year ago

the method line is doing real work, not just window dressing

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u/emeka_beaulieu1 point·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with batch, not with what you concluded.

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u/nikhil_lindqvist1 point·1 year ago

the related substances line is where the story is

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u/nikhil_lindqvist445 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Mass% and area% are answering different questions on the same document.

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u/amara_halonen358 points·1 year ago·edited

The COA I was holding said 96.8% area and I thought it was trash. Turns out the method was solid and the impurity profile was clean.

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u/laila_wojcik347 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/survodutide because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/cormac_pereira95 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/survodutide because the people who need it are not reading this community.

Disagree on that part. 98.7% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/emeka_beaulieu157 points·1 year ago

Are you looking at area% or net peptide content? Different numbers.

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u/bastian_aalto131 points·1 year ago

the method line is doing real work, not just window dressing

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u/hugo_bergstrom43 points·1 year ago·edited

Did they give you the chromatogram or just the summary line?

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u/coa_collectorarchivist25 points·1 year ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/ghrp_history228 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 15 weeks, not 25. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/amara_halonen122 points·1 year ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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