Lab Readout

Free PDF guide

Learn how to read a Certificate of Analysis.

Get the COA Reading Kit: an illustrated guide to report identifiers, analytical methods and reported results, with examples to help you spot information that needs clarification.

Inside the kit

  • An illustrated reading guide
  • Annotated training examples

In preparation, not included yet: A one-page review checklist.

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Lab Readout is an educational reading tool. It is not a laboratory, and it is not an independent testing or certification authority.

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What you will learn

Four things a report will not explain itself.

  1. 1

    Locate the identifiers that tie a report to a specific batch

  2. 2

    Tell a reported result apart from a stated specification

  3. 3

    Read what an analytical method does and does not cover

  4. 4

    Recognize documentation that is too incomplete to rely on

Questions

About the kit.

Does it cost anything?

No. The kit is free and the download does not require a payment method.

Do I need an app account?

No. The kit is delivered by email. An account is only needed if you want to analyze your own documents and keep the reports.

When does it arrive?

The email is queued as soon as your request is recorded. If it has not arrived, check the spam folder and then request a fresh link from this page.

Am I signing up for marketing?

Only if you tick the newsletter box, and that box is separate from the download. If you tick it you will get one confirmation email and nothing else until you confirm. The kit arrives either way.

Who publishes this?

Lab Readout is an educational reading tool. It is not a laboratory, and it is not an independent testing or certification authority.

Ready when you are.

One email, one PDF, no account. The newsletter is a separate box and the kit arrives whether or not you tick it.

Send me the Reading Kit

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