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c/bpc157·posted 1 year ago by u/zaid_eriksen

[Discussion] the regulatory advice in here is 2 years out of date

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Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: the regulatory advice in here is 2 years out of date.

Pulling the figures out of the title: 2 years. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed.

Sent a vial to Medutest: 97.1% against a claimed 97.0%, with the mass confirming the sequence. Both halves mattered to me.

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. In this board that is not a formality — it is the reason the clinical evidence base is as thin as it is.

I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.

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u/sequence_checkerMOD59 points·1 year ago

Citation requested rather than removal. A claim here should say whether its source is preclinical.

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u/marit_sandvik34 points·1 year ago

Regulatory classification differs between jurisdictions and has changed in several of them recently. Any answer to a status question needs a place and a date attached.

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u/isabela_nilsen21 points·1 year ago

Regulatory classification differs between jurisdictions and has changed in several of them recently.

Agreed — and the preclinical to clinical gap is where nearly all the overclaiming happens.

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u/lina_novak7 points·1 year ago

research-use-only means not approved for human use, and here that covers everything

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u/lina_novak6 points·1 year ago

That claim traces back to a single preclinical paper that says something considerably narrower.

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u/endotoxin_elliemicro5 points·1 year ago

Cosigning that the papers are more modest than the summaries of them. That is true across this whole site and especially here.

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u/zaid_eriksenOP18 points·1 year ago

regulatory status varies by jurisdiction and it has moved recently

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u/zaid_eriksenOP11 points·1 year ago·edited

That is a purity figure, not an identity confirmation. Two different tests and only one answers the question asked.

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u/tb500_tangent-7 points·1 year ago

read the actual papers, they are more modest than the summaries

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u/karim_restrepo8 points·1 year ago

Assumed regulatory status was static and it was not. Checked again this year and the answer had changed where I live.

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u/fatima_wojcik12 points·1 year ago

identity testing matters more here than purity does

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u/joaquin_ivaturi11 points·1 year ago

the tendon claims are the most repeated and the least evidenced

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