TrialTracker_MD said:Concentration choice is a precision decision, not a preference.
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.
Worth separating that from vendor vetting, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
One concrete data point for the thread. Red flags, in rough order of how much they should worry you: no verifiable address, no batch numbers, prices far under market, vendor-commissioned tests only, pressure toward irreversible payment, and shipping with no temperature control.
DataDave said:I am going to disagree with reconstituting low as a general rule.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The useful checklist is about verifiability rather than presentation. Independent test results commissioned by buyers rather than by the seller, consistency across multiple batches over time rather than one flattering report, a physical address and a company registration that resolve, batch and lot numbers on the actual labelling, and a shipping practice that matches what the material needs. Everything a good-looking website provides is cheap to fake; none of the items above are.
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Browse GL BiochemFollowing on from tyler_CSCS — and this may be the naive question:
How to check the arithmetic without trusting a website calculator, since three calculators gave me three answers?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Follow-up: it was dead space. Switching to a low-dead-space fixed-needle syringe gave me the tenth dose back.