Comment · Fri, November 13, 2020 · ND Owner
I compared the capsule weight consistency between ND and a competitor. The results won't shock you.
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umbrella_term · 24 points
I weighed 10 capsules of Intellimeds' 400 mg phenibut and the inconsistency surprised me. The weights in milligrams were: 663, 667, 673, 685, 709, 716, 718, 732, 741, 752. Big differences! Average weight 705.6mg, standard deviation 31.9 mg. One of their capsules weighs ~123 mg, meaning the content weights were between 540 mg and 629. I assume some is filler and flow agent, but there's no info about it on their product site. If it's pure phenibut, the doses are dangerously mislabeled.
Then I remembered I had some of ND's 500mg yeast extract capsules and weighed ten of those. The numbers are much more consistent: 603, 608, 610, 613, 618, 620, 624, 626, 627, 636; average 618.5 mg, standard deviation 10.11 mg. An empty capsule weighs exactly 100 mg, meaning I got a slight bonus on each, and that's certainly not a problem with something as safe as yeast extract.
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iwantmyownname · 2 points
Yea 3 is the most I've gotten and that was in a micromag bottle, I think 3 might be the upper limit
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
It depends on the process/machine that was used for that lot. There is variability in the fill process that we account for. So whatever that variability is, we pad up from that to ensure no single unit is ever short. 3 capsules padded would have been a manual fill based on weight. So that most likely means it was hand filled and weigh-checked. We do that for smaller runs when it doesn't make sense to setup our automated filling line for a run. We have mostly moved away from that now that we have semi-auto capsule filling tabletop machines. Those have much less variability than weight-based filling, as they have a laser count each capsule. So we have reduced the amount we need to pad recently.