FDA_TrackerJim 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.
greg_boulder said:Six orders from the same supplier over eight months, every one independently tested, and the consistency is the part worth reporting rather than any…
Shipping damage protocol for vendor vetting orders: if your package arrives with visible damage, temperature excursion, or broken vials:
Reputable vendors will replace damaged shipments without argument. If they push back, that's a red flag about the vendor.
KevinCompounds said:I disagree that testing history is decisive.
Coming at KevinCompounds’s question from a different direction. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after DadBodDave’s answer:
How people are distinguishing a supplier having a bad batch from a supplier on the way out?
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.