Comment · Wed, October 20, 2021 · ND Owner
Reddit AMA | In-House Lab Edition
Original post in this thread
NootropicsDepotGuru · 77 points
​
We are very excited to announce that Nootropics Depot will be conducting its first-ever Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), which is a semi-live Q&A session, about our In-House Analytical Laboratory and we would love for you to join us! See below for full details and get your question(s) ready. We hope to see you there!
WHEN
STARTS: October 20th | 9am AZ MST
ENDS: October 22nd | 9am AZ M…
What they were answering
solothesensei · 1 points
What were the very first pieces of lab equipment you procured for ND and why did you prioritize them that way? Genuinely curious, since you guys must have had trouble affording them all initially.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
The first big piece of lab equipment I bought was our Thermo Scientific IS50 FTIR/ATR. The reason we did that first is that it is a really useful tool for the ID of most products. It has low running costs. It is easy to use, and doesn't need PhD level scientists developing methods for it. It's non-destructive to the samples. It also allows us to build up spectral libraries of chemicals that we can identify in future samples. We likely have the world's largest spectral library of nootropic compounds and supplements now. We can use this extensive library to track changes to product quality or synthesis methods over the years. You can even get a good idea on purity based on FTIR results, too. It's not a strict assay methodology, but with the amount of data we have in our library, we can pretty accurately tell when something is going to pass or fail just by its IR spectra alone. There are certainly exceptions, but it is a fantastic tool for QC analysis in the lab.