An error taxonomy for a market without a pharmacist
The recurring errors in this market are not exotic. They are a small set of arithmetic and reading failures, each capable of moving a dose by a factor of two or ten.
January 2026
Everything filed in January 2026, the month of Volume 3, Number 1. The issue itself — cover, editor’s letter and table of contents — is here.
Medutest result on a Xianning survodutide lot lands 4.4 points below the supplier’s figure
The report states the gradient, the wavelength and the integration threshold, which is more than most.
The online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply enters a consent decree and stops sterile preparation
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
A shortage listing ends. 20 pharmacies now have a business model and no legal basis for it.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
What a split-sample exercise can establish, and what it cannot
Duplicate submissions under different names test within-laboratory repeatability, which is a different quantity from between-laboratory reproducibility.
What freeze-drying actually removes, and what it leaves behind
Lyophilisation does not stop degradation. It slows every pathway by removing the solvent that most of them require, and the residue of solvent that remains sets the rate.
Independent analysis puts a ERP tirzepatide lot at 98.1%, against 95.1% on the certificate
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
The online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply closes after 20 years
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
Why summer is a documented quality problem in this trade
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
What a 34% rise in coupling-reagent prices does to a 2 mg vial
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Reproducibility, measured rather than assumed
Two years ago we ran an anonymised version of this comparison and promised a named one. This is it, with every method printed in full.
Why your laboratory interval differs from the one in the textbook
Two sources of noise sit under every number: how reproducible the assay is, and how much the analyte varies within the same person on the same day.
The 26-day notice: how a compounding wind-down works in Ireland
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
The consolidator trading as Meridian Freight Partners enters a consent decree and stops sterile preparation
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
A supplier suspends shipping to Argentina after 16 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
WXT declines, for the 8th time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Side effects, cost, supply, target: four reasons with four trajectories
Real-world persistence figures, with their definitions stated, because the definitions are doing most of the work.
Five things a purity figure cannot tell you
A chromatogram is silent on everything that does not absorb: counter-ions, water, inorganic salts and non-chromophoric excipients all contribute mass to the vial and nothing…
Zhuhai export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Argentina declines to reimburse dulaglutide outside a specialist service
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
Inspectors cite the online reseller trading as Adamant Research Supply over sterility assurance
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
What a low result means when intake has halved
What the trials measured, which in the case of micronutrients is very little.
The incidence tables, read line by line
Trial adverse-event tables count episodes reported to a study nurse. They are the best data we have and they systematically under-record the mundane.
Adsorption, and the dose that stayed on the glass
At low concentrations a measurable fraction of peptide can adsorb to glass and plastic surfaces, and the loss is largest exactly where it is least expected.
What changed at QSC in January, and what the company will not say about it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
A supplier suspends shipping to Singapore after 17 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
The interventions with trial support, and the much longer list without
Constipation is the most tractable of the effects and the most consistently under-managed.
Portugal health authority warns on falsified semaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
QYB declines, for the 3rd time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
From the floor in Chengdu: 12 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Why summer is a documented quality problem in this trade
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
The lowest effective dose is a real concept with almost no data behind it
What the labels permit, what clinicians do, and the size of the gap between them.
Same mass, different molecule: why identity by mass is not identity
An isoaspartate rearrangement changes the molecule and not the mass. A method that confirms identity by molecular weight alone will report it as the parent compound.
What a 23% rise in coupling-reagent prices does to a 15 mg vial
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
What the new Poland guidance says about stopping
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
From the floor in Xi'an: 22 posters, one theme
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
Turnaround, cost and accreditation across the services this trade relies on
We asked all four services what they can determine, on what timescale, at what price, and under what accreditation. The answers are printed in full.
When to stop escalating and when to stop entirely
We set out the questions that distinguish a symptom to manage from a dose to change.