Dr.RaviCardio 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.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.
LipidDoc_ATL said:I am going to disagree with reconstituting low as a general rule.
Coming at LipidDoc_ATL’s question from a different direction. Prices dramatically below market are the strongest single signal, and the reason is arithmetic rather than suspicion. Synthesis, testing, and cold-chain shipping have floors. A price well under the floor means something was skipped, and the two things that get skipped are testing and content.
Worth separating that from vendor vetting, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after SarahChen_PharmD’s answer:
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.
My error was treating units as a mass. Once I wrote mg/ml on the vial in marker and worked in millilitres first, the two of us got the same answer.