AX-2024-004333 · Epitalon · QSC lot QSC-2403-Y7501

Section 1

Results

Measured against the index acceptance specification for the short bioregulator peptides class. A specification is a decision the index made; a result is a measurement. See where each threshold came from.

Parameter	Method	Result	Unit	Index spec
Purity	RP-HPLC, 15 min gradient, 214 nm	99.93	% area	≥ 99.0	PASS
Total impurities	RP-HPLC, sum of reported peaks	0.07	% area	≤ 1.0	PASS
Largest single impurity	RP-HPLC — Ala-Glu-Asp tripeptide (−57 Da)	0.05	% area	≤ 1.00	PASS
Identity	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	required for VERIFIED status	NOT TESTED
Total peptide content	by difference from the gravimetric mass balance	84.29	%w/w	—	NOT TESTED
Target-compound content	total peptide content × purity	84.23	%w/w	—	NOT TESTED
Gross fill (as weighed)	five-place balance, under nitrogen	25.39	mg	20 mg declared	NOT TESTED
Recovered target peptide	gross fill × target content	21.386	mg	20 mg claim	NOT TESTED
Recovery against label claim	recovered ÷ claim	106.9	%	90.0 – 110.0	PASS
Water content	Karl Fischer, coulometric, duplicate	5.87	%	≤ 12.0	PASS
Counter-ion (acetate)	anion-exchange ion chromatography	8.89	%	≤ 10.0	PASS
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated — see /methods/residual-solvents-q3c/	0.95	%	—	NOT TESTED
Endotoxin	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	≤ 5.0	NOT TESTED
Sterility	membrane filtration, USP <71>, 14 d	No growth at 14 d	—	no growth	PASS
Appearance	visual, diffuse light, black and white background	White lyophilised cake, intact	—	white to off-white intact cake	PASS
Reconstitution clarity	reconstituted per submitter procedure	Clear, colourless, no visible particulates	—	clear, no visible particulates	PASS
pH (reconstituted, 1 mg/mL)	potentiometric, two-point calibration	5.68	—	2.5 – 8.0	PASS
Retention time (observed)	RP-HPLC, 15 min gradient	2.45	min	2.49 ± 0.20 (normalised)	PASS
Peak asymmetry (10 % height)	Ph. Eur. 2.2.46	1.02	—	0.80 – 1.50	PASS
Plate count, main peak	N = 5.54 (t/w½)²	61,957	—	≥ 20,000	PASS
Resolution to nearest impurity	vs aspartimide (−18 Da)	1.49	—	no index criterion	REPORTED

Section 2

Chromatogram and peak integration

The figure is drawn from the table. It is not an independent illustration — if a number in the table changed, the trace would change with it.

Figure 1. RP-HPLC trace, 15 min gradient, 214 nm. Drawn from the peak-integration table below: peak positions are the reported retention times, peak areas are the reported area percentages, peak widths follow the reported plate count of 61,957, and skew follows the reported asymmetry factor of 1.02. Baseline noise is seeded from the report ID and is illustrative. The lower panel is the same trace at a stated vertical expansion with the slow gradient drift subtracted, because at full scale a 0.05 % impurity against a 99.93 % main peak is a line two pixels tall; the main peak runs off-scale there by design.

#	Peak	RT	Area (µV·s)	% area	Δ mass (Da)
1	Epitalon — main peak	2.45	4,856,908	99.93	—
2	Ala-Glu-Asp tripeptide (−57 Da)	2.35	2,430	0.05	-57.021
3	aspartimide (−18 Da)	2.51	972	0.02	-18.011
Closure check — purity + Σ impurities				100.00	CLOSES

Reporting threshold 0.05 % area. Peaks below it are not reported and are therefore excluded from the total, which overstates purity by their sum — see peak integration.

Section 4

Gravimetric mass balance

Water, counter-ion, residual and total peptide content are exhaustive and mutually exclusive categories. They must account for 100 % of the cake mass. The index closes this to within 0.02 pp and the build asserts it.

Component	Determination	%w/w of cake
Water	Karl Fischer	5.87
Counter-ion (acetate)	ion chromatography	8.89
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated	0.95
Total peptide content	by difference	84.29
Total		100.00 CLOSES

Supplier certificate, as declared

The supplier's own figures for this lot, beside the independent measurement. Divergence is assessed against the batch median, not against this single report — see rule AX-R05.

Figure	Supplier COA	This report	Index note
Purity (% area)	99.25	99.93	divergence -0.67 pp vs batch median
Total impurities (% area)	1.09	0.07
Largest single impurity (% area)	not stated	0.05
Water (%)	5.2	5.87
Counter-ion (%)	9.0	8.89
Peptide content (%w/w)	85.2	84.29
Endotoxin (EU/mg)	not stated	not determined
Method stated on certificate	YES	—	column, gradient and wavelength given

Section 5

Provenance and caveats

Where a sample came from changes the weight of the evidence. The index treats it as a first-class field.

Sample provenance: Buyer-sourced
Evidentiary weight: Strongest available evidence in this index.
Chain of custody: Retail purchase → third-party forwarder (33 d) → laboratory (courier, cold pack, 12 d) → assay.
Assay date: 13 Jul 2024
Submitted to the index: 21 Jul 2024
Laboratory: Kestrel Bioanalytical, Melbourne, Australia
Method basis: 15 min gradient · unit-resolution MS
Verification status: METHOD LIMITED

What this report does not establish

That the compound is the compound named. No identity confirmation was ordered on this submission. A purity figure describes chromatographic homogeneity of whatever eluted; it does not name it.
That the material is free of bacterial endotoxin. Endotoxin was not measured. No chromatographic result bears on it.
That any other vial in the same lot has the same composition. One vial was tested. Within-lot vial-to-vial variation in this index has a median of 0.28 pp and a 90th percentile of 0.74 pp.
That any other lot from the same supplier has the same composition. Batch-to-batch variation is larger than within-batch variation for every supplier here.
That the material is suitable for administration to a human or an animal. These are research compounds. No result on this site is a safety assessment and the index takes no position on use.
That the material was manufactured by the supplier that sold it. Contract synthesis is normal in this market and twenty-nine batches in the index fingerprint to a bulk from a different company than the one named on the label.

Section 6

Annotations 3

Signed technical comments from index contributors. Not a discussion forum — annotations question or contextualise the result, and the data team replies where a reply is warranted.

lot_traceability21 Jul 2024

Lot QSC-2403-Y7501 on the vial matches the certificate that came with it. That is the check every buyer can do in ten seconds and most do not.

multiple_compare21 Jul 2024

Restricting every supplier comparison to buyer-sourced records is the sensitivity analysis the scorecards publish. On the current dataset it changes no ordering that was not already inside measurement noise.

Contributor #G-886921 Jul 2024

Where the nearest species is a diastereomer of Epitalon, resolution is the only thing that separates them at all — no mass measurement will. The compound fingerprint states what is achievable and on what method.

Section 7

Related records

Same batch — lot QSC-2403-Y7501 n=12

Report	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2024-004330	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.92	6.14	88.9	Buyer-sourced	2	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004331	QSC-2403-Y7501	Medutest	2024-Q3	99.93	6.10	105.3	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004332	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.64	6.70	97.0	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2024-004334	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.83	6.80	94.0	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2024-004335	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.93	5.99	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004336	QSC-2403-Y7501	Medutest	2024-Q3	99.93	5.91	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004337	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.58	6.52	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004338	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.91	6.90	—	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2024-004339	QSC-2403-Y7501	Medutest	2024-Q3	99.93	6.33	100.2	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004340	QSC-2403-Y7501	Janoshik	2024-Q3	99.79	6.39	89.7	Buyer-sourced	2	MARGINAL
AX-2024-004341	QSC-2403-Y7501	Nordanalyt	2024-Q3	99.54	6.54	97.4	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL

Batch rollup and reproducibility assessment →

Cross-sections

Other recent Epitalon records in the index.
Report	Supplier	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Result
AX-2026-042008	AMB	AMB-2602-Y6433	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.30	8.75	105.1	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-042009	AMB	AMB-2602-Y6433	VendorInvestigate	2026-Q3	99.16	8.62	102.3	Buyer-sourced	FAIL
AX-2026-042010	AMB	AMB-2602-Y6433	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.09	8.20	103.4	Laboratory-retained	FAIL
AX-2026-042007	AMB	AMB-2602-Y6433	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.42	8.62	93.8	Buyer-sourced	FAIL
AX-2026-042468	Homopeptide	HOMO-2512-A5108	Janoshik	2026-Q2	99.93	7.81	100.8	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-042463	Homopeptide	HOMO-2512-A5108	Janoshik	2026-Q2	99.93	7.68	93.2	Buyer-sourced	FAIL
AX-2026-042041	HYB	HYB-2603-U7133	Janoshik	2026-Q2	99.65	6.82	95.3	Buyer-sourced	FAIL
AX-2026-042470	Homopeptide	HOMO-2512-A5108	Janoshik	2026-Q2	99.63	7.99	—	Buyer-sourced	FAIL

Other recent QSC records in the index.
Report	Compound	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-041599	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	QSC-2606-V7416	VendorInvestigate	2026-Q3	97.96	3.52	—	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2026-041601	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	QSC-2606-V7416	Kestrel	2026-Q3	98.33	4.10	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-041602	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	QSC-2606-V7416	VendorInvestigate	2026-Q3	98.36	3.38	101.8	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-041477	Triptorelin	QSC-2607-C5749	Nordanalyt	2026-Q3	99.53	3.42	—	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-041600	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	QSC-2606-V7416	Nordanalyt	2026-Q3	97.74	4.91	100.9	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2026-041603	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	QSC-2606-V7416	PeptideMeter	2026-Q3	98.43	4.20	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-041606	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	QSC-2606-V7416	Janoshik	2026-Q3	98.03	3.58	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-041585	Liraglutide	QSC-2605-W7381	Medutest	2026-Q3	99.59	5.09	92.8	Laboratory-retained	0	PASS