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c/coa·submitted 1 year ago by u/dario_boateng

someone explain COA to me like I have not read a paper in years

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The title is the whole question — someone explain COA to me like I have not read a paper in years — but here is why I am asking. The PDF creation date being later than the analysis date is usually a re-issue or a re-export. It is worth one question and it is not evidence of anything on its own. Ask what the stability…

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u/laila_yilmaz201 points·1 year ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/rohan_steiner247 points·1 year ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

This is the sentence to take away. The rest of the thread is footnotes to it.

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u/coa_collectorarchivist55 points·1 year ago

area% is not mass%, and the difference is the whole game

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u/india_generic_g364 points·1 year ago

Are the related substances itemised or is it a single total?

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u/zaid_balogun128 points·1 year ago

The document I was worried about turned out to be a re-issue with a later creation date. Asked, got the original, entirely ordinary.

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u/dario_boatengOP117 points·1 year ago

Batch number and date of analysis, are both on there?

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u/amara_halonen41 points·1 year ago

net peptide content and purity are two different numbers on the same vial

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u/laila_wojcik14 points·1 year ago

the counterion is part of the mass you paid for

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u/step_therapy_s20 points·1 year ago

Asked for the storage condition behind the stability statement. Got it in a sentence. It is a two-line email and almost nobody sends it.

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