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I made a spreadsheet comparing vendor COAs — looking for input

FranDenver Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 4:08 PM 13 replies 847 viewsPage 2 of 3
RetaRick_CA
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Mar 19, 2026 at 8:55 PM#6
Dr.RaviCardio said:
The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation.

I disagree that testing history is decisive. It tells you what a supplier did when they were being watched. Continuity of behaviour under stress — a late shipment, a failed test, a complaint — is more predictive than any run of good results.

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Mar 19, 2026 at 10:47 PM#7

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. The four things to check on any report, in order: does it name your batch, who commissioned it, what method was used, and does it report content as well as purity. A report failing any of those is weak evidence regardless of the percentage on it.

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Mar 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM#8
RetaRick_CA said:
I disagree that testing history is decisive.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The provenance questions are more useful than the numbers. Does the report name the batch on your vial. Is the date consistent with when that batch existed. Is it addressed to the vendor or to the person who paid for the test. Was the sample taken from general stock or supplied by the vendor. A perfect certificate for a different batch is worth nothing, and vendor-supplied samples are the most common way a genuine report ends up misleading.

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Mar 20, 2026 at 2:31 AM#9

Following on from wei_SG — and this may be the naive question:

How people are distinguishing a supplier having a bad batch from a supplier on the way out?

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Mar 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM#10

Closing the loop on my own question.

Went back through my own correspondence with an earlier supplier and the warning signs were all there in the replies, weeks before the quality changed. I was reading the product and not the behaviour.

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