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Most buyers read the purity number. The lot number is what makes it proof.

A percentage on a product page is a claim. A third-party certificate matched to the lot in your hands is evidence. Here is how to tell the two apart, and the three checks almost nobody runs before they order.

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The breakdowns

Three things almost nobody checks before they order

Each one takes under a minute. Each one separates a supplier with evidence from a supplier with adjectives.

Purity vs quantity 99% pure does not mean the vial holds 10 milligrams Purity is a ratio. Net content is an amount. One number on the label cannot answer both questions. Read the breakdown →

Lot traceability A certificate that does not match your lot proves nothing A Certificate of Analysis describes one batch. Not a product. Not a brand. Almost nobody checks the code. Read the breakdown →

Storage and transit The certificate is signed before the box ships Testing describes material on the day it was tested. What happens between the lab and your bench is on the supplier. Read the breakdown →

Most suppliers put a percentage on the page. ORA puts a lot number on the certificate.

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The checklist

What a real certificate should show you

Six lines. If one is missing, you are reading marketing, not evidence.

01IdentityMass spectrometry confirms the molecule is the one on the label, not just that the sample is pure.

02PurityHPLC measures the target compound as a share of the total material.

03Lot numberThe code on the certificate matches the code on your vial. Otherwise it is about someone else's batch.

04Testing laboratoryAn independent lab named on the document, not the word "certified" on its own.

05Test dateWhen the lot was analysed, so you know which batch the result belongs to.

06Net contentAn amount, not a ratio. Worth asking for by lot number before you assume it.

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