u/gallbladder_gary

That figure is the starting material purity, not the finished preparation potency. Two different tests.

the API source is the question nobody asks and everybody should

the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it

salt forms are the recurring argument and the answer is boring

Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.

Paid noticeably more at one clinic than another for what turned out to be the same facility behind both.

The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.

This. Area percent answers "what fraction of what the detector saw was the peak I wanted", and people read it as "how much peptide is in the vial".

Agreed — the itemised related substances table is the difference between a document and a receipt.

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.

Yes — and the reason to ask for the whole page is that the interesting parts are the ones people crop out to fit a screenshot.