Three lots failed third-party testing in the first quarter of this year. None of them shipped. We destroyed all three, absorbed the cost, and re-synthesized. This is the public record of what failed and why — the same record we wish every seller in the category kept.
A failed batch is not an embarrassment to hide; it is the system working. The point of testing every lot is that some lots will fail. What separates a serious seller from a careless one is what happens next.
What failed, and how
Every lot is tested for three things: identity by mass spectrometry, purity by reverse-phase HPLC, and safety by endotoxin assay. A lot has to pass all three. In Q1 we lost one lot to each category — one identity failure, one purity failure, one safety failure.
The three lots
These are pulled directly from our lab records. Each links to the original report.
| lot | why it was destroyed |
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Why we publish failures
The cheap move is to quietly re-test, or to lower the bar until the lot passes, or to sell marginal product to a market that cannot check. We publish the failures for the same reason we publish the passes: a lab report you can only see when it's good is not a lab report, it's an advertisement. Every destroyed lot is listed on the lab reports page alongside the ones that passed.