verification is not a recommendation. it means the evidence standard has been met, nothing more
#vendor-verification 2025-05-21
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Highlights from this day
- crimp_top — what does not count: the supplier certificate alone, a screenshot, a referral link, or a friend who says it was fine 19:43
- crimp_top — verification is revoked on a confirmed failure and the revocation stays in the log permanently 19:46
- hard_stop_hal — if you want to help, buy a lot, test it, and post the report with the lot number. that is the whole contribution 19:48
- truncation_tru — for the archive we refresh on new evidence, not on a clock. an old verification with no recent results says so on the entry, not advice obviously 20:14
- hard_stop_hal — the point of the standard is that it applies to suppliers we like as well as ones we do not 20:19
we have never revoked on a single result. we have revoked on a pattern
blinded submissions carry more weight because they remove a variable, not because we distrust the labs, thats one data point
a referral link is disqualifying because it makes the reporter an interested party. that is all
what does not count: the supplier certificate alone, a screenshot, a referral link, or a friend who says it was fine
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verification is revoked on a confirmed failure and the revocation stays in the log permanently
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if you want to help, buy a lot, test it, and post the report with the lot number. that is the whole contribution
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a good result with bad sample handling gets logged with a note about the handling. context is part of the record
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a verified supplier can still ship you a bad vial. verification is about the record, not about your parcel
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how does a supplier get verification revoked
how many independent results does a supplier need
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never for sale
for the archive we refresh on new evidence, not on a clock. an old verification with no recent results says so on the entry, not advice obviously
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what actually counts as evidence for a verification
the point of the standard is that it applies to suppliers we like as well as ones we do not
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