Answer first: comparing suppliers is only meaningful if the comparison holds the laboratory, the method and the compound constant, and most published comparisons hold none of them.
Submitting to different laboratories introduces a method difference that commonly exceeds the supplier difference. Gradient slope alone can move a reported purity figure by a per cent in either direction.
Publish the method with the result. A comparison without the laboratory named and the submission dates given is not reproducible by anyone.
Inter-laboratory spread on identical peptide material is routinely half a per cent to a per cent by RP-HPLC, which is the noise floor for any cross-laboratory comparison.
Nothing here is medical advice, and research-use compounds are not approved for human use.
One laboratory, one method, one submission. Otherwise it is not a comparison.
6I would add a line about writing the accept threshold down first. It is the step everyone skips. – nkem_obiora 4 months ago add a comment