Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The archive
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The relabeller trading as Vantris Bio closes after 5 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.
Leucine, isoleucine, and a difference no balance can measure
Deamidation adds 0.98 daltons. On a low-resolution instrument at incretin molecular weights, that is inside the noise.
The retest date and the expiry date are not the same document
A retest date says that material should be re-examined before use. An expiry date says it should not be used. The trade uses the second word for the first concept.
A guide to the results that will resolve themselves
Three different explanations for the same abnormal number, and how to tell them apart.
SSA declines, for the 24th time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Independent analysis puts a TFC liraglutide lot at 97.8%, against 94.8% on the certificate
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 supplier suspends shipping to Italy after 7 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
The impurity hiding underneath the parent peak
An orthogonal method separates on a different physical principle, so that species co-eluting in the first are likely to resolve in the second. Two runs of the same method at…
A supplier suspends shipping to Singapore after 12 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
SURPASS-3 extension data: what happens after the trial stops
A design note rather than a result: what the comparator was, and what that permits you to conclude.
The United Arab Emirates caps tirzepatide prescribing to 11 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
Six words a verification badge would need to mean anything
Lot-level verification with a public report is a real and achievable thing. It exists in this market, on a minority of listings.
Units, millilitres, milligrams: three scales on one small object
A unit is a volume. A dose is a mass. The bridge between them is concentration, and concentration is a number somebody has to calculate.
What the new France guidance says about stopping
The evidence base is thin and the document says so, which is to its credit.
SURMOUNT-4 misses on a secondary endpoint the coverage has not mentioned
A design note rather than a result: what the comparator was, and what that permits you to conclude.
Saudi Arabia declines to reimburse semaglutide outside a specialist service
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
The slide that was not in the abstract
Reported from the sessions, and from the two hours afterwards.
The badge is about a sample. The listing is about a product.
The Journal does not treat a badge as evidence and states so wherever it reports one.
A guide to the results that will resolve themselves
The panel drawn during a week of vomiting is measuring the vomiting.
Saudi Arabia caps exenatide prescribing to 11 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
What changed at SWB 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.
Denmark caps exenatide prescribing to 22 specialist centres
Efficacy was never the question in this appraisal. Duration of treatment was.
Halvard & Pike Apothecary of Portland, Maine closes after 4 years
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
What happens when the drug is taken away: three randomised answers
Three randomised withdrawal designs have tested what happens when treatment stops. Their results are consistent and they are consistently misreported.
Mass spectrometry answers a different question, properly
Where two methods disagree, the conservative convention is to report the lower figure. It is not universal, and whether a laboratory follows it belongs on the report.
The quiet end of the relabeller trading as Vantris Bio
A proper account of an operation that existed, and of what closing it cost.
A supplier suspends shipping to France after 3 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.