AX-2026-041513

Retatrutide · 12 mg declared · Qingdao Sigma Chemical Co., Ltd. · lot QSC-2510-H6405

PASSPURITY ONLY

Report ID: AX-2026-041513
Compound: Retatrutide
Compound class: Incretin analogues and co-agonists
Supplier: QSC — Qingdao Sigma Chemical Co., Ltd.
Batch / lot: QSC-2510-H6405
Declared label claim: 12mg
Laboratory: PeptideMeter
Assay date: 04 Mar 2026
Submitted: 28 Mar 2026
Quarter: 2026-Q1
Submitter: ju.iyer
Sample provenance: Buyer-sourced

Section 1

Results

Measured against the index acceptance specification for the incretin analogues and co-agonists 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, 28 min gradient, 214 nm	98.49	% area	≥ 96.5	PASS
Total impurities	RP-HPLC, sum of reported peaks	1.51	% area	≤ 3.5	PASS
Largest single impurity	RP-HPLC — des-Aib20 analogue	0.86	% 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	89.66	%w/w	—	NOT TESTED
Target-compound content	total peptide content × purity	88.31	%w/w	—	NOT TESTED
Gross fill (as weighed)	five-place balance, under nitrogen	12.51	mg	12 mg declared	NOT TESTED
Recovered target peptide	gross fill × target content	11.048	mg	12 mg claim	NOT TESTED
Recovery against label claim	recovered ÷ claim	92.1	%	90.0 – 110.0	PASS
Water content	Karl Fischer, coulometric, duplicate	3.81	%	≤ 8.0	PASS
Counter-ion (TFA)	anion-exchange ion chromatography	5.76	%	≤ 12.0	PASS
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated — see /methods/residual-solvents-q3c/	0.77	%	—	NOT TESTED
Endotoxin	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	≤ 5.0	NOT TESTED
Sterility	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	no growth	NOT TESTED
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	3.66	—	2.5 – 8.0	PASS
Retention time (observed)	RP-HPLC, 28 min gradient	19.45	min	19.44 ± 0.50 (normalised)	PASS
Peak asymmetry (10 % height)	Ph. Eur. 2.2.46	1.30	—	0.80 – 1.50	PASS
Plate count, main peak	N = 5.54 (t/w½)²	55,182	—	≥ 20,000	PASS
Resolution to nearest impurity	vs [D-Aib2]-diastereomer	0.60	—	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, 28 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 55,182, and skew follows the reported asymmetry factor of 1.30. 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 0.86 % impurity against a 98.49 % 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	Retatrutide — main peak	19.45	4,786,919	98.49	—
2	des-Aib20 analogue	19.04	41,799	0.86	-85.053
3	[D-Aib2]-diastereomer	19.24	21,385	0.44	0.000
4	C18 diacid regioisomer	19.99	5,346	0.11	0.000
5	truncated (5-39)	17.66	2,916	0.06	-428.201
6	incomplete Fmoc removal (+222 Da)	21.70	1,458	0.03	+222.068
7	aspartimide (−18 Da)	20.11	486	0.01	-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	3.81
Counter-ion (TFA)	ion chromatography	5.76
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated	0.77
Total peptide content	by difference	89.66
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)	98.23	98.49	divergence -0.30 pp vs batch median
Total impurities (% area)	1.77	1.51
Largest single impurity (% area)	0.86	0.86
Water (%)	2.3	3.81
Counter-ion (%)	not stated	5.76
Peptide content (%w/w)	not stated	89.66
Endotoxin (EU/mg)	not stated	not determined
Method stated on certificate	NO	—	no method section — the result cannot be reconciled against any other

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 → submitter (−20 °C, 2 d) → laboratory (courier, dry ice, 11 d) → assay.
Assay date: 04 Mar 2026
Submitted to the index: 28 Mar 2026
Laboratory: PeptideMeter, Tallinn, Estonia
Method basis: 28 min gradient · high-resolution MS
Verification status: PURITY ONLY

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 the material is sterile. Sterility was not tested.
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

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Section 7

Related records

Same batch — lot QSC-2510-H6405 n=4

Report	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Result
AX-2026-041514	QSC-2510-H6405	Nordanalyt	2026-Q1	98.39	3.69	101.9	Supplier-supplied	PASS
AX-2026-041515	QSC-2510-H6405	Medutest	2026-Q1	98.57	3.59	—	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-041516	QSC-2510-H6405	Medutest	2026-Q1	98.60	3.60	—	Buyer-sourced	PASS

Batch rollup and reproducibility assessment →

Cross-sections

Other recent Retatrutide records in the index.
Report	Supplier	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Result
AX-2026-042437	Homopeptide	HOMO-2605-V4718	Nordanalyt	2026-Q3	98.68	3.67	102.8	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-043095	KP	KP-2607-H5774	Janoshik	2026-Q3	95.81	5.48	105.2	Buyer-sourced	FAIL
AX-2026-042282	TFC	TFC-2608-J1156	Janoshik	2026-Q3	98.54	4.27	—	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-043094	KP	KP-2607-H5774	PeptideMeter	2026-Q3	96.32	6.40	—	Buyer-sourced	FAIL
AX-2026-042441	Homopeptide	HOMO-2605-V4718	Medutest	2026-Q3	98.93	4.22	—	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-041427	QYB	QYB-2604-B4920	PeptideMeter	2026-Q3	97.93	2.45	101.7	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-041786	ASY	ASY-{CAT}-2288	VendorInvestigate	2026-Q3	98.78	6.59	—	Buyer-sourced	PASS
AX-2026-041428	QYB	QYB-2604-B4920	Janoshik	2026-Q3	98.35	3.20	—	Laboratory-retained	PASS

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