How far back does this document actually reach?
What happens to traceability when bulk material is subdivided, repackaged and relabelled two or three times before sale.
Counterfeits & mislabelling
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Spain health authority warns on falsified semaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Germany health authority warns on falsified dulaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Ireland 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.
The reproducible spectrum: the single most useful thing a report can carry
What the Journal asks for when it writes to a supplier about an identity claim, and how often it gets it.
Deamidation, oxidation, and the two shifts worth memorising
Deamidation adds 0.98 daltons. On a low-resolution instrument at incretin molecular weights, that is inside the noise.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Check the vial, not the box
The interval between manufacture and analysis is the most under-read figure on the page, and the one most likely to matter by the time a vial is opened.
Australia health authority warns on falsified semaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The reviewer, the approver, and why regulated documents carry two names
What the Journal asks when a document arrives unsigned, and what the answers have been.
Everything a buyer assumes has been checked, ranked by whether it has
A purity figure is silent on peptide content, on water, on counter-ion, on sterility, on endotoxin and on stability. Each of those silences has a price attached.
Poland health authority warns on falsified semaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Resolving power and mass accuracy are two different specifications
Calibration drift is real, unremarkable, and the reason serious laboratories run internal standards.
Repackaging, subdivision, and the batch number that changed hands
A document is only as good as the chain that connects it to the material, and most chains here are two or three links longer than the paperwork admits.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
What a mass spectrometer does to a peptide before it measures anything
A brief and unromantic tour of the interface between a liquid sample and a vacuum.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
How a release document is put together in a regulated plant
The header identifies the batch, the table records the tests, and the footer says who is answerable. Two of the three are usually incomplete.
Portugal health authority warns on falsified semaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.