What changed at CPC in December, and what the company will not say about it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
The Supply Chain — 2024
From protected amino acids to a vial in a cold pack.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Guangzhou export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
France health authority warns on falsified dulaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
What a 27% rise in coupling-reagent prices does to a 5 mg vial
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The pyrogen question has a price, and it is not the price of a purity run
Endotoxin is the more tractable of the two questions, and a kinetic chromogenic determination is neither slow nor exotic. It is simply not on the menu.
Nantong export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
What changed at QSC in December, and what the company will not say about it
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
KP declines, for the 13th time, to name its synthesis house
Documentation practice is the only part of vendor quality a buyer can assess before purchase.
Oxidation, and the peroxide that came in with the surfactant
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.
Benzyl alcohol is a preservative, not a sterilising agent
We set out what is known, what is inferred and what is simply assumed about the fortnight after a vial is opened.
A supplier suspends shipping to New Zealand after 21 consecutive customs detentions
The route did not close because of a rule about peptides.
CPC declines, for the 6th time, to name its synthesis house
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.
France health authority warns on falsified tirzepatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Sweden health authority warns on falsified exenatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Xianning export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.
Reading a certificate as a document rather than as a score
The header identifies the batch, the table records the tests, and the footer says who is answerable. Two of the three are usually incomplete.
Shanghai export categories for peptide intermediates were quietly renamed
Follow the resin, not the catalogue.