AX-2025-020381 · Melanotan II · MKM lot MKM-2508-B3505

Section 1

Results

Measured against the index acceptance specification for the melanocortin-receptor peptides class. A specification is a decision the index made; a result is a measurement. See where each threshold came from.

Parameter	Method	Result	Unit	Index spec
Purity	RP-HPLC, 35 min gradient, 214 nm	98.84	% area	≥ 98.5	PASS
Total impurities	RP-HPLC, sum of reported peaks	1.16	% area	≤ 1.5	PASS
Largest single impurity	RP-HPLC — [L-Phe7]-diastereomer	0.66	% area	≤ 1.00	PASS
Identity — theoretical monoisotopic mass	calculated from molecular formula	1023.5402	Da	—	NOT TESTED
Identity — observed monoisotopic mass	LC-MS, high resolution (ESI-TOF/QTOF)	1023.5404	Da	—	NOT TESTED
Mass accuracy	observed vs theoretical	+0.2	ppm	± 15	PASS
Total peptide content	by difference from the gravimetric mass balance	90.25	%w/w	—	NOT TESTED
Target-compound content	total peptide content × purity	89.20	%w/w	—	NOT TESTED
Gross fill (as weighed)	five-place balance, under nitrogen	12.03	mg	10 mg declared	NOT TESTED
Recovered target peptide	gross fill × target content	10.731	mg	10 mg claim	NOT TESTED
Recovery against label claim	recovered ÷ claim	107.3	%	90.0 – 110.0	PASS
Water content	Karl Fischer, coulometric, duplicate	3.14	%	≤ 8.0	PASS
Counter-ion (acetate)	anion-exchange ion chromatography	6.15	%	≤ 10.0	PASS
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated — see /methods/residual-solvents-q3c/	0.46	%	—	NOT TESTED
Endotoxin	kinetic chromogenic LAL	0.33	EU/mg	≤ 5.0	PASS
Sterility	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	no growth	NOT TESTED
Appearance	visual, diffuse light, black and white background	Off-white lyophilised cake, intact	—	white to off-white intact cake	PASS
Reconstitution clarity	reconstituted per submitter procedure	Clear, colourless, no visible particulates	—	clear, no visible particulates	PASS
pH (reconstituted, 1 mg/mL)	potentiometric, two-point calibration	5.20	—	2.5 – 8.0	PASS
Retention time (observed)	RP-HPLC, 35 min gradient	11.34	min	11.35 ± 0.25 (normalised)	PASS
Peak asymmetry (10 % height)	Ph. Eur. 2.2.46	1.31	—	0.80 – 1.50	PASS
Plate count, main peak	N = 5.54 (t/w½)²	74,624	—	≥ 20,000	PASS
Resolution to nearest impurity	vs [L-Phe7]-diastereomer	1.10	—	no index criterion	REPORTED

Section 2

Chromatogram and peak integration

The figure is drawn from the table. It is not an independent illustration — if a number in the table changed, the trace would change with it.

Figure 1. RP-HPLC trace, 35 min gradient, 214 nm. Drawn from the peak-integration table below: peak positions are the reported retention times, peak areas are the reported area percentages, peak widths follow the reported plate count of 74,624, and skew follows the reported asymmetry factor of 1.31. Baseline noise is seeded from the report ID and is illustrative. The lower panel is the same trace at a stated vertical expansion with the slow gradient drift subtracted, because at full scale a 0.66 % impurity against a 98.84 % main peak is a line two pixels tall; the main peak runs off-scale there by design.

#	Peak	RT	Area (µV·s)	% area	Δ mass (Da)
1	Melanotan II — main peak	11.34	4,803,930	98.84	—
2	[L-Phe7]-diastereomer	11.15	32,078	0.66	0.000
3	linear (open-lactam) precursor (+18 Da)	10.48	15,553	0.32	+18.011
4	oxidised Trp (+16 Da)	10.92	3,888	0.08	+15.995
5	MT-II dimer (head-to-tail)	14.08	3,402	0.07	+1023.540
6	des-acetyl MT-II (−42 Da)	10.78	1,458	0.03	-42.011
Closure check — purity + Σ impurities				100.00	CLOSES

Reporting threshold 0.05 % area. Peaks below it are not reported and are therefore excluded from the total, which overstates purity by their sum — see peak integration.

Section 3

Mass spectrum and identity

Theoretical monoisotopic mass 1023.5402 Da, computed from C50H69N15O9. All ppm figures on this site are against monoisotopic values — see why that matters.

Figure 2. ESI charge-state envelope, high-resolution instrument. Sticks are placed at m/z = (M + z × 1.007276)/z for the observed neutral mass of 1023.5404 Da. Sodium (+21.982/z) and potassium (+37.956/z) adducts are shown where the parent charge state exceeds 25 % relative abundance; they are adducts of the same molecule and are not impurities.

Charge	Theoretical m/z	Observed m/z	Δ m/z	Rel. abundance (%)
3+	342.1873	342.1874	0.0001	8.2
2+	512.7774	512.7775	0.0001	57.6
1+	1024.5475	1024.5477	0.0002	100.0

Section 4

Gravimetric mass balance

Water, counter-ion, residual and total peptide content are exhaustive and mutually exclusive categories. They must account for 100 % of the cake mass. The index closes this to within 0.02 pp and the build asserts it.

Component	Determination	%w/w of cake
Water	Karl Fischer	3.14
Counter-ion (acetate)	ion chromatography	6.15
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated	0.46
Total peptide content	by difference	90.25
Total		100.00 CLOSES

Supplier certificate, as declared

The supplier's own figures for this lot, beside the independent measurement. Divergence is assessed against the batch median, not against this single report — see rule AX-R05.

Figure	Supplier COA	This report	Index note
Purity (% area)	98.5	98.84	divergence -0.16 pp vs batch median
Total impurities (% area)	not stated	1.16
Largest single impurity (% area)	not stated	0.66
Water (%)	1.4	3.14
Counter-ion (%)	not stated	6.15
Peptide content (%w/w)	not stated	90.25
Endotoxin (EU/mg)	not stated	0.33
Method stated on certificate	YES	—	column, gradient and wavelength given

Section 5

Provenance and caveats

Where a sample came from changes the weight of the evidence. The index treats it as a first-class field.

Sample provenance: Supplier-supplied
Evidentiary weight: Weaker evidence. Read with the caveat below.
Chain of custody: Supplier despatch → laboratory direct (courier, cold pack, 10 d) → assay. Submitter did not handle the vial.
Assay date: 06 Oct 2025
Submitted to the index: 09 Oct 2025
Laboratory: Nordanalyt Laboratories, Uppsala, Sweden
Method basis: 35 min gradient · high-resolution MS
Verification status: VERIFIED

What this report does not establish

That the material is sterile. Sterility was not tested.
That any other vial in the same lot has the same composition. One vial was tested. Within-lot vial-to-vial variation in this index has a median of 0.28 pp and a 90th percentile of 0.74 pp.
That any other lot from the same supplier has the same composition. Batch-to-batch variation is larger than within-batch variation for every supplier here.
That the material is suitable for administration to a human or an animal. These are research compounds. No result on this site is a safety assessment and the index takes no position on use.
That the material was manufactured by the supplier that sold it. Contract synthesis is normal in this market and twenty-nine batches in the index fingerprint to a bulk from a different company than the one named on the label.

Section 6

Annotations

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Section 7

Related records

Same batch — lot MKM-2508-B3505 n=7

Report	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-042945	MKM-2508-B3505	Janoshik	2025-Q4	98.33	2.84	88.5	Supplier-supplied	4	FAIL
AX-2025-020376	MKM-2508-B3505	Janoshik	2025-Q4	98.64	2.93	107.4	Supplier-supplied	3	MARGINAL
AX-2025-020377	MKM-2508-B3505	Janoshik	2025-Q4	98.66	2.65	—	Supplier-supplied	3	MARGINAL
AX-2025-020378	MKM-2508-B3505	VendorInvestigate	2025-Q4	97.64	2.66	95.7	Buyer-sourced	2	FAIL
AX-2025-020379	MKM-2508-B3505	Medutest	2025-Q4	99.21	1.99	88.5	Supplier-supplied	4	MARGINAL
AX-2025-020380	MKM-2508-B3505	Medutest	2025-Q4	98.81	2.51	107.0	Supplier-supplied	4	FAIL

Batch rollup and reproducibility assessment →

Cross-sections

Other recent Melanotan II records in the index.
Report	Supplier	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-042648	GGPeps	GGPE-2603-P8735	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.10	6.97	—	Supplier-supplied	4	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042479	SWB	SWB-2603-A5707	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.16	3.67	94.5	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042481	SWB	SWB-2603-A5707	Medutest	2026-Q3	98.95	3.37	90.8	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042650	GGPeps	GGPE-2603-P8735	Medutest	2026-Q3	99.86	6.49	—	Supplier-supplied	3	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042483	SWB	SWB-2603-A5707	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.38	3.73	107.2	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042651	GGPeps	GGPE-2603-P8735	PeptideMeter	2026-Q3	99.53	7.04	90.7	Supplier-supplied	4	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042478	SWB	SWB-2603-A5707	VendorInvestigate	2026-Q3	98.73	4.34	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042482	SWB	SWB-2603-A5707	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.22	4.66	—	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL

Other recent MKM records in the index.
Report	Compound	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-042943	Adipotide	MKM-2606-K4013	Janoshik	2026-Q3	97.92	6.31	—	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042891	CJC-1295 (no DAC)	MKM-2603-V2347	Janoshik	2026-Q3	99.28	3.63	—	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042942	Adipotide	MKM-2606-K4013	VendorInvestigate	2026-Q3	97.04	5.56	94.6	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2026-042914	Gonadorelin	MKM-2604-A2596	Janoshik	2026-Q2	99.93	5.19	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-042884	BPC-157	MKM-2605-X2575	Nordanalyt	2026-Q2	98.12	2.89	—	Laboratory-retained	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042946	Tirzepatide	MKM-2601-L3752	Medutest	2026-Q2	97.71	8.10	—	Supplier-supplied	1	FAIL
AX-2026-042911	Gonadorelin	MKM-2604-A2596	Medutest	2026-Q2	99.08	5.55	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042932	L-Glutathione (reduced)	MKM-2511-F2902	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.57	8.41	92.9	Supplier-supplied	1	MARGINAL