Quality and documentation

A lure active is bought twice: once as a material and once as a set of numbers that a quality department has to accept. The second purchase is the one that delays shipments, so documentation is treated here as part of the specification.

Certificate of analysis

The COA is issued per batch, not per product. It reports identity, assay and isomeric ratio against a named method, and it carries the same lot number as the container label and the packing list. Where a geometric isomer exists, the ratio of the named isomer to its partner is part of what the certificate states — an assay figure on its own would not tell a formulator whether the lot will behave like the last one.

If your incoming inspection runs a different method, say so at enquiry stage. Agreeing the method before the lot is released is cheaper than reconciling two certificates afterwards.

Safety data sheet

An SDS accompanies every material as supplied, and it is the controlling document for storage, handling, protective equipment and disposal. The storage notes on product pages are a summary; where the two differ, the SDS governs.

Specification sheet

Each compound can be supplied with a specification sheet that states the parameters checked at release. It is written so it can be filed against an incoming-goods procedure rather than kept as a marketing document.

What we will not put in writing

Three things are deliberately absent from this site: a purity figure that is not tied to a certificate, a target species list for compounds where the catalogue does not carry one, and a registration claim for a market where no registration exists. Where the answer is unknown or market-specific, the honest answer is “on request” or “not registered”, and that is what the page says.

Samples

A sample is drawn from a released lot and travels with the same documents as a commercial lot. That is the point of taking one: it lets a customer approve a specification rather than a one-off batch.

Request a specification sheet