AX-2026-043153 · GHK-Cu · SSA lot SSA-2604-V7731

Section 1

Results

Measured against the index acceptance specification for the tissue-repair and immunomodulatory 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, 15 min gradient, 214 nm	97.69	% area	≥ 97.0	PASS
Total impurities	RP-HPLC, sum of reported peaks	2.31	% area	≤ 3.0	PASS
Largest single impurity	RP-HPLC — oxidised His (+16 Da)	1.66	% area	≤ 1.00	FAIL
Identity — theoretical monoisotopic mass	calculated from molecular formula	401.1024	Da	—	NOT TESTED
Identity — observed monoisotopic mass	LC-MS, unit resolution (single quadrupole)	401.1087	Da	—	NOT TESTED
Mass accuracy	observed vs theoretical	+15.6	ppm	± 15	FAIL
Peptide content	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	required to check label claim	NOT TESTED
Water content	Karl Fischer, coulometric, duplicate	3.98	%	≤ 10.0	PASS
Counter-ion	no ionisable counter-ion expected	N/A	—	not applicable	NOT TESTED
Residual solvent + inorganic residue	estimated — see /methods/residual-solvents-q3c/	0.69	%	—	NOT TESTED
Endotoxin	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	≤ 5.0	NOT TESTED
Sterility	not ordered on this submission	not determined	—	no growth	NOT TESTED
Appearance	visual, diffuse light, black and white background	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	7.19	—	2.5 – 8.0	PASS
Retention time (observed)	RP-HPLC, 15 min gradient	3.38	min	3.34 ± 0.25 (normalised)	PASS
Peak asymmetry (10 % height)	Ph. Eur. 2.2.46	1.30	—	0.80 – 1.50	PASS
Plate count, main peak	N = 5.54 (t/w½)²	50,074	—	≥ 20,000	PASS
Resolution to nearest impurity	vs oxidised His (+16 Da)	1.94	—	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, 15 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 50,074, and skew follows the reported asymmetry factor of 1.30. 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 1.66 % impurity against a 97.69 % 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	GHK-Cu — main peak	3.38	4,748,037	97.69	—
2	oxidised His (+16 Da)	3.26	80,681	1.66	+15.995
3	Gly-His dipeptide (−128 Da)	3.03	18,955	0.39	-128.095
4	apo-GHK (copper-free, −62 Da)	3.14	6,804	0.14	-61.930
5	GHK-Cu 2:1 complex	3.69	5,832	0.12	+277.145
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 401.1024 Da, computed from C14H22CuN6O4. All ppm figures on this site are against monoisotopic values — see why that matters.

Figure 2. ESI charge-state envelope, unit-resolution instrument. Sticks are placed at m/z = (M + z × 1.007276)/z for the observed neutral mass of 401.1087 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 (%)
1+	402.1097	402.1160	0.0063	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.

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)	98.18	97.69	divergence -0.19 pp vs batch median
Total impurities (% area)	not stated	2.31
Largest single impurity (% area)	not stated	1.66
Water (%)	not stated	3.98
Counter-ion (%)	not stated	N/A
Peptide content (%w/w)	91.7	not determined
Endotoxin (EU/mg)	not stated	not determined
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: Buyer-sourced
Evidentiary weight: Strongest available evidence in this index.
Chain of custody: Retail purchase → submitter (2–8 °C, 24 d) → laboratory (courier, ambient, 4 d) → assay.
Assay date: 29 May 2026
Submitted to the index: 31 May 2026
Laboratory: Kestrel Bioanalytical, Melbourne, Australia
Method basis: 15 min gradient · unit-resolution MS
Verification status: PARTIAL

What this report does not establish

That the compound is not a near-isobaric alternative. Identity was confirmed at unit mass resolution, which cannot exclude species differing by 1 or 2 Da. The specific alternatives not excluded are named in the identity block above.
How much of the named compound is in the vial. Peptide content was not determined, so recovered mass cannot be calculated and the label claim cannot be checked.
That the material is free of bacterial endotoxin. Endotoxin was not measured. No chromatographic result bears on it.
That the material is sterile. Sterility was not tested.
How much metal is present. The mobile phase dissociates the complex on-column, so the peptide was measured and the metal was not. A purity figure for a metal-complexed peptide without a separate metal determination is half of a result.
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 3

Signed technical comments from index contributors. Not a discussion forum — annotations question or contextualise the result, and the data team replies where a reply is warranted.

mass_defect31 May 2026

Mass-defect reasoning narrows this quickly. Very few plausible modifications of GHK-Cu would produce a shift in the direction and magnitude observed, and the ones that would are all in the named-impurity table.

retest_date31 May 2026

Retail certificates in this index carry a retest date more often than they used to. It is the field that turns a release figure into a statement about the material over time.

stopper_seal31 May 2026

Purity at 97.69 % with an oxidation product as the largest named impurity describes material that was made well and travelled badly. Those are different problems with different owners.

Section 7

Related records

Same batch — lot SSA-2604-V7731 n=13

Report	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-043151	SSA-2604-V7731	Medutest	2026-Q2	98.11	4.56	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-043152	SSA-2604-V7731	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	98.03	4.40	—	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043154	SSA-2604-V7731	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	97.82	4.82	101.6	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043155	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.45	4.14	—	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043156	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.37	4.55	99.2	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-043157	SSA-2604-V7731	Medutest	2026-Q2	99.19	5.14	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-043158	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.59	4.49	—	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043159	SSA-2604-V7731	Medutest	2026-Q2	98.74	4.15	107.0	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL
AX-2026-043160	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.01	4.02	91.8	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043161	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.37	4.65	104.8	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043162	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.50	4.36	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-043163	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.34	4.64	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL

Batch rollup and reproducibility assessment →

Cross-sections

Other recent GHK-Cu records in the index.
Report	Supplier	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-043160	SSA	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.01	4.02	91.8	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043157	SSA	SSA-2604-V7731	Medutest	2026-Q2	99.19	5.14	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-041251	WWB	WWB-2512-B1996	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	99.43	5.87	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-043249	CPC	CPC-2601-D1258	Kestrel	2026-Q2	99.50	6.96	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-043245	CPC	CPC-2601-D1258	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	98.10	6.57	95.0	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-041247	WWB	WWB-2512-B1996	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	99.23	6.09	88.8	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-042708	ERP	ERP-2601-F9816	Nordanalyt	2026-Q2	98.88	3.87	91.5	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-043154	SSA	SSA-2604-V7731	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	97.82	4.82	101.6	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS

Other recent SSA records in the index.
Report	Compound	Lot	Lab	Quarter	Purity %	Water %	Recovery %	Provenance	Flags	Result
AX-2026-043135	BPC-157	SSA-2601-N6863	Nordanalyt	2026-Q2	98.16	4.66	92.8	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-043160	GHK-Cu	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.01	4.02	91.8	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043157	GHK-Cu	SSA-2604-V7731	Medutest	2026-Q2	99.19	5.14	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-043141	BPC-157	SSA-2601-N6863	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.06	4.06	94.6	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-043154	GHK-Cu	SSA-2604-V7731	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	97.82	4.82	101.6	Buyer-sourced	0	PASS
AX-2026-043137	BPC-157	SSA-2601-N6863	PeptideMeter	2026-Q2	98.17	4.14	—	Buyer-sourced	1	MARGINAL
AX-2026-043162	GHK-Cu	SSA-2604-V7731	Janoshik	2026-Q2	98.50	4.36	—	Supplier-supplied	0	PASS
AX-2026-043134	BPC-157	SSA-2601-N6863	Medutest	2026-Q2	97.89	4.01	—	Buyer-sourced	1	FAIL