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How to read a certificate of analysis
What a certificate reports, what it does not report, and which fields to check first when you receive one.
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A certificate of analysis is a record of what a laboratory measured on a specific sample, on a specific date, using a stated method. It is evidence about that sample, not a general statement about a compound or a product line.
Read the identifiers first: sample or batch reference, receipt date, analysis date and the laboratory that performed the work. If a certificate cannot be tied back to a physical batch identifier, it cannot support a verification claim.
Then read the methods. Chromatographic purity, identity confirmation and contaminant screening answer different questions, and a certificate that reports only one of them is silent on the others.
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