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

related substances — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right

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The title is the argument: related substances — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right. Here is the rest of it. 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 statement…

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u/laila_wojcik398 points·1 year ago

UV at 214nm sees the peptide bond and picks up almost everything; at 280nm you are looking at aromatics only. Which wavelength the number came from is part of the number.

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u/anders_kuusela101 points·1 year ago

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

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u/spreadsheet_gremlindata117 points·1 year ago

How to ask for a batch record without it turning into a negotiation.

One email, three requests: the batch-specific certificate for lot X, the method line behind it, and the storage condition the stability statement was written against. No preamble, no explanation of why you want it.

What comes back is the signal. A full document with the column and gradient printed on it, inside a day, tells you there is a real quality system behind the operation. That is the test I run before I order from anyone new, and it costs nothing.

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u/andres_restrepo30 points·1 year ago

water content is on there and everyone skips it

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u/wrong_network_w49 points·1 year ago

Net peptide content is the fraction of the powder that is actually peptide once counterion, water and residual solvent are accounted for. A 99% pure acetate salt can still be about 85% peptide by mass.

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u/gastric_emptying_g-7 points·1 year ago

Sent one vial to Medutest and VendorInvestigate. 98.2% and a claimed 98.0%. Cost me more than the vial and I would do it again.

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u/zeynep_zielinski203 points·1 year ago

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

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u/stablecoin_steve94 points·1 year ago·edited

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

Agreed, and the practical version is: ask for the itemised table. If it exists, you get it.

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