three years of API source threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
Thinking out loud about this: three years of API source threads, summarised so you do not have to read them.
Potency and sterility testing on the finished preparation are separate from any certificate covering the starting material. Ask which you are being shown.
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, and the choice between arrangements is one for you and a prescriber who knows your history.
Asked which facility and got a name straight away. Looked it up, found the registration, felt considerably better about the whole thing.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Salt form matters for mass: a preparation specified as one salt and dosed as the free base gives you a different amount of peptide for the same number on the label.
ask which facility, then ask for their testing
Salt form matters for mass: a preparation specified as one salt and dosed as the free base gives you a different amount of peptide for the same number
This is the distinction the whole board runs on. Everything else follows from it.
Was there potency testing on the finished preparation, or only on the starting material?
The shortage list is the legal hinge: the permissions that allow certain compounding to happen at scale are tied to a drug’s shortage status, which changes.
Concentration on the compounded vial was different from what I had been using and I nearly did the arithmetic on autopilot.