Not All Peppers Are Created Equal
Two vials. Same label, same claim, same price. One of them is what it says it is.
How material is tested, what each method proves, what it does not prove, and how to read the paperwork yourself.
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Two vials. Same label, same claim, same price. One of them is what it says it is.
It proves something specific about one sample, at one moment, by one method. That is genuinely valuable. It is also narrower than the phrase implies.
A certificate describes material at a moment in time. Chemistry keeps happening afterward.
Line by line, what a certificate of analysis actually tells you — and what it quietly does not.
You can be extremely certain about how much of something you have, and completely wrong about what it is.
The number is real. What most people think it means is not.
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