Accuracy, precision and the tolerance nobody states
Parts per million sound impressive until they are converted into daltons at the molecular weight of the thing being measured.
Counterfeits & mislabelling
Underfilled vials, substituted contents, cloned certificates and fabricated batch numbers.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Saudi Arabia health authority warns on falsified tirzepatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Australia health authority warns on falsified liraglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Norway health authority warns on falsified liraglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Saudi Arabia health authority warns on falsified tirzepatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Argentina health authority warns on falsified exenatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The word “confirmed” is doing an enormous amount of work on this certificate
The Journal’s standing position: a mass that matches is necessary evidence of identity and nowhere near sufficient.
Portugal health authority warns on falsified exenatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Carbon-13, and the reason a peptide has more than one mass
A peptide has a monoisotopic mass and an average mass, they differ by several daltons at this molecular size, and a certificate that does not say which it quotes cannot be…
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Brazil health authority warns on falsified dulaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The certificate says 2026. The vial in your hand does not say anything.
What happens to traceability when bulk material is subdivided, repackaged and relabelled two or three times before sale.
Nought point nine eight of a dalton: the modification that hides in plain sight
What would be needed to catch each of these, and what it would cost.
Sweden health authority warns on falsified exenatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.