Project:Quality and testing working group

Coordinating certificates, independent testing, traceability and quality failures.

The quality and testing working group covers the documents rather than the determinations: what a certificate of analysis asserts, what an independent report establishes, how a lot is traced, and how each of these fails. The determinations themselves belong to the analytical group, and the boundary is deliberately soft.

Certificates of analysis; the independent testing services; sampling, blinding and chain of custody; batch identification and traceability; the quality-failure articles covering forgery, inflated claims, underfilling and counterfeiting; fill-finish and repackaging.

The group's articles distinguish a documentary observation from an allegation. That a certificate does not report peptide content is an observation about a document; that a supplier is concealing something is an allegation, and this wiki does not make them.

The corresponding positive formulation is that a document is judged by whether it is checkable — whether it names its methods, conditions and lot — rather than by how favourable its numbers are. Articles in this group should reach for that criterion rather than for a threshold.

1. State the checkability criterion once, properly, at Certificate of analysis and reference it elsewhere rather than restating it.
2. Keep the failure-mode articles free of named organisations unless a finding is independently published.
3. Document what each testing service produces, in its own terms, without ranking them.
4. Extend the traceability treatment to cover consolidated shipments, which are invisible to a recipient.