Dr.NutriCornell said:Do it in two steps and it stops being confusing.
I am going to disagree with reconstituting low as a general rule. More diluent, more punctures, more in-use days at room temperature, and the stability trade-off is real. Precision is not the only variable being optimised.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Two things anyone can check: a state licence number for a 503A, and an FDA outsourcing-facility registration for a 503B. Both are publicly searchable, and a pharmacy unwilling to give you either has answered the question.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
LabKate said:I am going to disagree with reconstituting low as a general rule.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The shortage clause is the answer to the second question and it is a subtraction rather than an addition. Both exemptions forbid compounding something that is essentially a copy of a commercially available approved product. A product FDA has listed as in shortage is not treated as commercially available, so listing removed the objection that otherwise blocked compounding. It never created a permission; it withdrew a prohibition, which is why it evaporated the moment the supply fact changed.
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View ResultsA narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How much material I am losing to dead space, and whether that explains why a 10mg vial gives me nine usable draws rather than ten?
Closing the loop on my own question.
Resolved. I wrote mg, ml and mg/ml on the vial in marker and did the division in that order, and the two of us now get the same number every time.