Medutest result on a Shenzhen retatrutide lot lands 2.4 points above the supplier’s stated figure
The Journal submitted the sample and paid for the analysis. The vendor was told in advance.
TheCompound Journal
Reporting on incretins, compounding & the peptide supply chain
Page 29 of 34 of this archive, newest first.
The Journal submitted the sample and paid for the analysis. The vendor was told in advance.
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
We submitted vials for endotoxin determination and report the results, the method and the laboratory, because a pyrogen figure without a method is as empty as a purity…
A badge asserts that something was tested. It does not assert what, when, on whose sample, by what method, or whether the lot on sale is the lot that was tested.
Real-world persistence figures, with their definitions stated, because the definitions are doing most of the work.
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
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.
The report states the gradient, the wavelength and the integration threshold, which is more than most.
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
The document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
Duplicate submissions under different names test within-laboratory repeatability, which is a different quantity from between-laboratory reproducibility.
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.
A reminder that a purity figure is the output of a method, and that methods differ.
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
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.
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 document is four pages. Three of them are about dates.
The observation that closes a facility is rarely the dramatic one.
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Real-world persistence figures, with their definitions stated, because the definitions are doing most of the work.
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…
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.