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HPLC Purity Is an Area Percentage

The headline number on most certificates is a proportion inside one separation, measured against a stated release criterion. It is not an identity.

Report
Assay note, HPLC chromatographic purity
Build
PPR-20260901
Revision
r01
Compiled
Measurand
Main peak area against the total area a run resolved
Machine index
/llms.txt
Status
Measurement record. Not guidance.

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01 / What the line measures

A chromatographic purity result compares the main peak against the other peaks a run resolved, and reports a percentage. The instrument separates the sample in time, integrates the area under each peak, and sets the main peak against the total area the run resolved. On this record the figure is reported against a release criterion, written as not less than 95.0 percent, and measured purity across the published catalog runs 98.6 to 99.6 percent.

The percentage is arithmetic performed on peaks. Nothing in that arithmetic knows what the peaks were made of, which is why identity is carried on separate lines and not read off the purity figure.

02 / Where it stops

Outside the result

A chromatographic purity result apportions area inside one separation of one batch, and it names none of the species it apportions.

Two consequences follow, and both are scopes rather than warnings. The figure belongs to one run on one batch, so it carries forward to no other batch. Anything the separation failed to resolve sits outside the number, because a peak that did not separate was never set against the total. A purity result high or low is still silent on which compound produced the main peak.

03 / Read on

This row was transcribed from the certificate panel, purity line, on the vendor certificates index at peptaralabs.io/coa. The release criterion travels with the words release criterion, and the catalog range travels with the word catalog, because a percentage without its scope is an unfinished sentence.