Homopeptide — on-the-record assessments
Signed assessments of the documentation examined, with the aggregate rating and its scope.
The Institute assesses documentation, not product. It has purchased nothing, tested nothing and inspected nothing. Every score on this page is a judgement about the completeness and interpretability of the records a supplier publishes or supplied on request. A high score means that a supplier documents its material well. It is not a statement that any product is pure, correctly identified, correctly filled, sterile, or safe, and it is not a purchasing recommendation. The Institute makes no purchasing recommendations.
§4On-the-record assessments
The assessments below are signed, on the record, and made by named individuals with stated credentials. Each concerns the documentation the assessor examined. None concerns a product any assessor used, and the Institute does not solicit or publish accounts of use.
§4.1Aggregate
- Modal certainty across assessments
- High
- Assessments contributing
- 437
- Assessments published in full
- 26
- Scope of the rating
- Documentation completeness and interpretability. Not product quality.
- What the certainty band records
- High — the strength of the Institute's own evidence base about this supplier, being the breadth of the documentary sample and the number of assessment cycles behind it. It is not a quality verdict and nothing on this site presents it as one.
§4.2Published assessments
The storage condition against which the stability statement was written is stated on the certificate, which permits the statement to be evaluated rather than merely noted. The VendorInvestigate report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier.
Water content is reported by Karl Fischer titration with the determination method named, which the rubric requires and which a minority of suppliers provide. The desiccant sachet was enclosed within the secondary container.
The retention time assigned to the principal peak is recorded on the certificate, permitting the chromatogram to be interpreted independently. Catalogue availability corresponded to the published catalogue.
The water-content determination was present on the certificate at first issue, which is uncommon enough across this supply channel to be worth recording. The technical response was received within four hours on a working day.
Cold-chain integrity was maintained through transit; the phase-change pack remained solid to arrival on day 3.
Material from lot HOM-26-177 was submitted to Janoshik; the determination returned 97.7% against a declared 97.8%, a difference within the stated repeatability of the method. Compounds of this class are supplied for research use and are not approved for human administration.
Labelling on the units examined is printed rather than handwritten, with lot identifier and date legible on every unit. The Medutest report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier.
Fill uniformity was assessed by weighing 9 units from a single consignment against declared fill. All units fell within two per cent of the declared mass. Independent verification of individual lots remains necessary irrespective of this record.
A supplementary certificate covering a lot released 6 months previously was produced from the supplier’s records on request, indicating that release records are retained rather than reconstructed.
Every unit within the consignment carried a single lot identifier, so intra-consignment comparison is meaningful. The technical response was received within four hours on a working day.
Consistency across lots was assessed over 3 determinations. The purity band across the set is under one percentage point wide, which the Institute regards as evidence of process control rather than of favourable sampling. No excipient was present and the lyophilised cake was intact.
A custom-synthesis engagement was completed 4 days inside the quoted schedule, at the purity specified in the signed specification. Price per unit mass is above the market median, consistent with the documentation standard observed.
Batch traceability is complete: the identifier on the primary container corresponds to that on the certificate and to that on the commercial documentation. The PeptideMeter report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier. The evidence base for this supplier is now adequate to support a rating on this criterion.
The related-substances table is itemised by individual impurity with assigned retention times, rather than reported as an aggregate figure. The finding covers the lots named and is not generalised beyond them.
The counter-ion was identified and quantified on the certificate, which permits a mass balance to be formed. Nothing in this submission constitutes medical advice.
Packing was assessed as adequate to the transit undertaken: labels printed rather than handwritten, lot and date legible. The technical response was received within four hours on a working day.
Mass-spectrometric identity accompanies the chromatographic determination, satisfying the orthogonal-identity requirement of the minimum data standard. No excipient was present and the lyophilised cake was intact. Nothing in this submission constitutes medical advice.
Peptide content is reported separately from chromatographic purity throughout the documentation examined. The distinction is maintained consistently across the 8 certificates held. Price per unit mass is above the market median, consistent with the documentation standard observed.
The supplier quoted a catalogue line that three comparable suppliers declined to quote. Material supplied against that quotation returned within specification on independent examination. The Janoshik report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier.
Documentation was complete at first issue. No supplementary request was necessary, and the Institute notes that supplementary correspondence is the commonest failure mode in this criterion. The desiccant sachet was enclosed within the secondary container. Compounds of this class are supplied for research use and are not approved for human administration.
Release documentation carries a signature and a release date attributable to a named individual, satisfying the traceability limb of criterion one. Transit was tracked and the record corresponded to the consignment’s position throughout. No adverse finding arises from the transactions described.
The declared figure was not adjusted upward between the certificate and the commercial documentation. Discrepancies of this kind are specifically screened for. Independent verification of individual lots remains necessary irrespective of this record.
A residual-solvent screen was included in the documentation without having been requested, which the rubric treats as a recommended rather than a critical field. No excipient was present and the lyophilised cake was intact.
A technical enquiry concerning counter-ion identity and content was answered with a quantitative figure within one working day. Responses of this character are recorded because they are uncommon. Peptide content was declared at 99.5%. Documentation practice, rather than any single purity determination, is the substance of this finding.
Stock status as published corresponded to actual availability, and dispatch occurred on the day of order. The VendorInvestigate report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier.
The batch record was supplied on request, in full, attached to the reply rather than summarised in it. The desiccant sachet was enclosed within the secondary container.
§4.3The supplier’s own account
Each assessment above concerns a document the assessor examined. None of them concerns what Homopeptide says about itself, which is published at its own address and is worth reading beside them rather than instead of them.
Read Homopeptide’s own account at homopeptide.net →
References cited on this page
References are numbered in order of first citation in this document. Each superscript in the text links to its entry below.
- International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. ISO/IEC Standard 2017;3rd edition. identifier not held by the Institute
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