Certificate of analysis: difference between revisions
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| 63 | Requests of this kind are made against the lot identifier printed on the vial. The supplier articles on this wiki each record, under §Ordering and availability, which of the four that organisation supplies as standard and which it supplies on request.{{r|reports}} | 63 | Requests of this kind are made against the lot identifier printed on the vial. The supplier articles on this wiki each record, under §Ordering and availability, which of the four that organisation supplies as standard and which it supplies on request.{{r|reports}} |
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| + | 65 | == Forgery, alteration and the limits of the document == | |
| + | 66 | Because a certificate is an unregulated document with no prescribed format, it can be altered or fabricated, and instances of both are documented — see [[Test report forgery]] and [[Purity claim inflation]]. Three observations follow, none of which requires assuming bad faith anywhere. | |
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| + | 68 | First, a certificate that cannot be tied to a physical vial is worth very little: the check a purchaser can perform without any equipment at all is that the lot identifier on the vial, the certificate and the invoice are the same string. | |
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| 65 | == References == | 70 | == References == |
| 66 | {{reflist}} | 71 | {{reflist}} |