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c/coa·posted 3 months ago by u/yusuf_nakamura

what would you tell week-1 you about certificate of analysis

Suspicious The Quiet One ×2 Receipts ×1

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 0.5mg to 12.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 17 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 70 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/teodor_jansen113 points·3 months ago

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

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u/marisol_frisk98 points·3 months ago

Yeah, 96.8% area is not the problem, the missing impurity breakdown is the problem.

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u/hugo_bergstrom66 points·3 months 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 MKM.

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u/yusuf_nakamuraOP-29 points·3 months ago

What were the related substances listed individually?

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u/nadia_kjaer1 point·3 months ago·edited

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/alcohol_aversion30 points·3 months ago

PDF metadata is checkable in fifteen seconds

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u/katrin_girard49 points·3 months ago

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

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u/stablecoin_steve32 points·3 months ago·edited

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

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u/priya_palacios15 points·3 months ago

Batch number and date of analysis? Both are load-bearing.

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u/certified_referenceMOD8 points·3 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/laila_yilmaz16 points·3 months ago

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

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u/freya_baptista8 points·3 months ago

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

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u/yara_antonsen6 points·3 months ago

Water content on the document? That affects your concentration math.

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u/liv_nkemelu3 points·3 months ago

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

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u/soren_zamora6 points·3 months 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/priya_palacios5 points·3 months 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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