Thoughts on a possible COA problem

[RetCurious]

Black Mamba said:

miss-sanne said:

Unless you test it yourself, you can never be sure.

I get that, if a company is determined enough, there are plenty of ways around problems like this.

What I was really asking is whether the practice they described is something that normally happens.

If "normal practice" refers to relying on a stale COA whose details likely don't apply to the product at hand, then sure.

 

[Rdg1970]

anhydrous said:

You've got to adopt a dealer's mindset here. Suppose a guy has enough powder on hand to crank out 10000 kits of T30, yet his supply of red caps only stretches to 7000 kits. Does anyone honestly believe he'd halt everything and scream about running out of red caps, then ship that same material off to Jano with different caps? Time and money both get burned that way.

And really, what does "batch" even mean? If a person buys 50kg of raw material and produces a billion vials across different doses, do they all count as one batch just because the powder source was shared? Is a batch everything cooked up in a single day or week? Or is it defined by whatever got grouped together when it hit a particular production step? Almost nobody outside would ever know those details -- definitely not you, not me, and not the clown ringing up your order at the drive through.

That reply was great—do you do writing professionally?

 

[Elgordoboy]

Skidude said:

Lots of suppliers let buyers pick cap colors when ordering in bulk. You're able to select them per run.

That's meaningless.

Any vial can get a batch number slapped on it; it's worthless when the vendor isn't trustworthy.

Only 3rd party testing counts

Does that make you or me feel any better?

Yeah....

Lean on herd mentality — reputation is the strongest protection when purchasing, since a seller's good name is something they'll fight to protect.. right up until they stop caring

Good Luck