SWB — on-the-record assessments
Signed assessments of the documentation examined, with the aggregate rating and its scope.
The Institute assesses documentation, not product. It has purchased nothing, tested nothing and inspected nothing. Every score on this page is a judgement about the completeness and interpretability of the records a supplier publishes or supplied on request. A high score means that a supplier documents its material well. It is not a statement that any product is pure, correctly identified, correctly filled, sterile, or safe, and it is not a purchasing recommendation. The Institute makes no purchasing recommendations.
§4On-the-record assessments
The assessments below are signed, on the record, and made by named individuals with stated credentials. Each concerns the documentation the assessor examined. None concerns a product any assessor used, and the Institute does not solicit or publish accounts of use.
§4.1Aggregate
- Modal certainty across assessments
- High
- Assessments contributing
- 739
- Assessments published in full
- 26
- Scope of the rating
- Documentation completeness and interpretability. Not product quality.
- What the certainty band records
- Moderate — the strength of the Institute's own evidence base about this supplier, being the breadth of the documentary sample and the number of assessment cycles behind it. It is not a quality verdict and nothing on this site presents it as one.
§4.2Published assessments
The certificate accompanying this consignment satisfies the Institute’s minimum data standard: it carries water content by Karl Fischer in addition to the critical fields. Catalogue availability corresponded to the published catalogue.
Fill uniformity was assessed by weighing 3 units from a single consignment against declared fill. All units fell within two per cent of the declared mass. The supplementary certificate was retrieved without demur. The finding covers the lots named and is not generalised beyond them.
The certificate accompanying the consignment was the lot-specific document rather than a batch-level one, and its lot number corresponded to the number printed on the vial. Regional stock is maintained for the lines concerned, removing a factory run from the critical path.
Packing was assessed as adequate to the transit undertaken: the desiccant sachet actually inside the secondary container. No excipient was present and the lyophilised cake was intact.
The storage condition against which the stability statement was written is stated on the certificate, which permits the statement to be evaluated rather than merely noted. The desiccant sachet was enclosed within the secondary container. The submission is recorded in full in the evidence log.
Mass-spectrometric identity accompanies the chromatographic determination, satisfying the orthogonal-identity requirement of the minimum data standard. A signature and release date appear on the certificate. The assessor declares no interest in the supplier beyond the transactions described.
The declared figure was not adjusted upward between the certificate and the commercial documentation. Discrepancies of this kind are specifically screened for. Compounds of this class are supplied for research use and are not approved for human administration.
Material from lot SWB-24-793 was submitted to Janoshik; the determination returned 99.3% against a declared 98.9%, a difference within the stated repeatability of the method. The supplementary certificate was retrieved without demur.
Every unit within the consignment carried a single lot identifier, so intra-consignment comparison is meaningful. Identity was confirmed by two orthogonal methods. Nothing in this submission constitutes medical advice.
Purity is declared by a stability-indicating chromatographic method, and the method, column chemistry and detection wavelength are all named on the certificate. The declaration is therefore assessable. The reorder placed at 12 months returned a figure within one tenth of a point of the original. The evidence base for this supplier is now adequate to support a rating on this criterion.
Cold-chain integrity was maintained through transit; the phase-change pack remained solid to arrival on day 6. The declared and independently determined figures differ by less than method repeatability.
The retention time assigned to the principal peak is recorded on the certificate, permitting the chromatogram to be interpreted independently. A signature and release date appear on the certificate. Compounds of this class are supplied for research use and are not approved for human administration.
Material for this line was held in regional stock and reached the purchaser without a factory run entering the critical path. Catalogue availability corresponded to the published catalogue.
Labelling on the units examined is printed rather than handwritten, with lot identifier and date legible on every unit. The gradient and column chemistry are stated, permitting the determination to be reproduced. The assessor has placed subsequent orders with the same supplier.
The order acknowledgement stated the dispatching warehouse, which allows the transit history of the lot to be reconstructed. Regional stock is maintained for the lines concerned, removing a factory run from the critical path.
Water content is reported by Karl Fischer titration with the determination method named, which the rubric requires and which a minority of suppliers provide. The finding covers the lots named and is not generalised beyond them.
Batch traceability is complete: the identifier on the primary container corresponds to that on the certificate and to that on the commercial documentation. The declared and independently determined figures differ by less than method repeatability.
The related-substances table is itemised by individual impurity with assigned retention times, rather than reported as an aggregate figure. The VendorInvestigate report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier. Nothing in this submission constitutes medical advice.
Every vial in the consignment carried a legible lot code matching the accompanying paperwork. They switched to a phase-change pack for the reorder without being asked and it arrived hard, and documentation for lot SWB-26-171 was complete at first issue. Catalogue availability corresponded to the published catalogue.
A custom-synthesis engagement was completed 2 days inside the quoted schedule, at the purity specified in the signed specification. The supplementary certificate was retrieved without demur.
Independent determinations obtained from Medutest and from PeptideMeter on the same lot agree to within one tenth of a percentage point, and both agree with the declared figure. Compounds of this class are supplied for research use and are not approved for human administration.
A supplementary certificate covering a lot released 18 months previously was produced from the supplier’s records on request, indicating that release records are retained rather than reconstructed. No excipient was present and the lyophilised cake was intact. This is a single assessor’s record and carries the weight the rubric assigns to one.
This assessor has placed 4 orders across 12 months and holds documentation for each. The set is internally consistent. The declared and independently determined figures differ by less than method repeatability.
A repeat determination on the same catalogue line at 8 months returned 98.0%, against 98.0% originally. No evidence of process drift is present in this sample. The Janoshik report is held on file and corresponds to the figures published by the supplier. Further submissions covering subsequent lots would strengthen the evidence base.
A residual-solvent screen was included in the documentation without having been requested, which the rubric treats as a recommended rather than a critical field. Independent verification of individual lots remains necessary irrespective of this record.
Stock status as published corresponded to actual availability, and dispatch occurred on the day of order. No adverse finding arises from the transactions described.
§4.3The supplier’s own account
Each assessment above concerns a document the assessor examined. None of them concerns what SWB says about itself, which is published at its own address and is worth reading beside them rather than instead of them.
Read SWB’s own account at shanghaiwibsonbiotechnology.net →
References cited on this page
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- International Organization for Standardization. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories. ISO/IEC Standard 2017;3rd edition. identifier not held by the Institute
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