Filtering finished oils

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Other than washing your own vials, It’s also possible to purchase ready to fill vials but they are decently expensive, and require meticulous care under a flow hood or clean room to fill.
 
What is the expected course of action for US Domestic vendors when they notice contamination?

(1) Continue selling, keeping quiet, till sold out?
(2) Toss all out, notify all clients for that batch, issue refunds (Honestly which vendor will do this?)


If 6 vials are found to be contaminated, is the assumption that everything else is good to go but 6 vials are not? If a sterile vial has a black spec, does that mean all vials except that vial is good to go?

At this point I'm just glad i don't buy much oils anymore, but i don't use a flow hood or whatsoever, maybe my oils are even worse :rolleyes:
 
What is the expected course of action for US Domestic vendors when they notice contamination?

(1) Continue selling, keeping quiet, till sold out?
(2) Toss all out, notify all clients for that batch, issue refunds (Honestly which vendor will do this?)


If 6 vials are found to be contaminated, is the assumption that everything else is good to go but 6 vials are not? If a sterile vial has a black spec, does that mean all vials except that vial is good to go?

At this point I'm just glad i don't buy much oils anymore, but i don't use a flow hood or whatsoever, maybe my oils are even worse :rolleyes:

Flow hoods are over rated
 
Just an update on my previous post about PIP from SSA’s gear - I’ve pinned twice now since filtering and although not completing painless, it’s significantly better! Based on this I would say the PIP was due to contamination, not the BB/BA concentration.
 
When I would make small amounts of special blends or high-concentration back when I homebrewed, I eventually stopped filtering it altogether

This after years of brewing.

I used 20% BB/2% BA and heated vigorously

Never got an infection from that gear, but I have from other gear that was filtered

I'm going to be honest, and I'll probably get down voted for this:

IMO unless someone spit in your vial and it has no BA, anecdotally it seems low-probability that you're going to be harmed by not filtering it.

Of course you should always be safe, I just want to offer a contrasting experience for discussion's sake.
 
Just fucking around with curious thoughts on this-

Has anyone ever reheated their oils for sterility?

Not sure if / which compounds can be reheated without damage.
 
IMO unless someone spit in your vial and it has no BA, anecdotally it seems low-probability that you're going to be harmed by not filtering it.
Funny coincidence, I was looking at the “recipe list” leaked a while ago allegedly from MuscleCandy, and their Tren Base recipe had no BA in it. Lots of guaiacol, though, which does appear to have some antibacterial properties. That stuff is the stench that keeps on giving.

I don’t doubt that most of us have robust immune systems that shrug off most minor bacterial invasions. Mine’s so robust it attacks my own tissues, and I have to take drugs to modulate it. So I’m kinda sensitive about that sort of thing. We have no way of knowing whether sources put BA into the brew and/or spat in it and/or seasoned it by pouring it down their taints, so now I’m even more motivated to filter.

Why did you stop filtering?
 
Funny coincidence, I was looking at the “recipe list” leaked a while ago allegedly from MuscleCandy, and their Tren Base recipe had no BA in it. Lots of guaiacol, though, which does appear to have some antibacterial properties.

I've seen it too, it's actually very insightful.
I got a feeling anything with G can be replaced out with a higher b.a% but i have no raws to confirm.

The Tren base recipe is very odd tho, you can just do it with normal ba/bb.
 
Why did you stop filtering?
I only stopped filtering when making small amounts (say, 10-50mL) of bespoke blends or high-concentration

It just didn't seem worth the effort to use an entire bottle top filter, especially since a small amount of oil can be lost in the process
 
What does everyone think the order of operations should be

Filter into empty sterile vial, then heat, or heat the original vial first, then filter into new vial?
 
What does everyone think the order of operations should be

Filter into empty sterile vial, then heat, or heat the original vial first, then filter into new vial?

I apply heat if im combining vials.
E.g 1 kit into a 100ml vial.

After filtering, i heat up the 100ml vial and shake.
Other than that, no need to use heat. I used to heat during filtering, till i had a few nipro rubber plungers start degrading..
 
If following the idea that heating vials creates sterility like discussed above

This?

After filtering.
You want a separate oven solely for this, not the one you used for making thanksgiving turkey.
 
What does everyone think the order of operations should be

Filter into empty sterile vial, then heat, or heat the original vial first, then filter into new vial?
If I’m not mistaken I think the heating process that was discussed was to sterilize vials of product in lieu of filtering them. I apologize if I’m mistaken but that was my understanding. But it’s also my impression that filtering is a better than a dry heat sterilization. Someone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong
 
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If I’m not mistaken I think the heating process that was discussed was to sterilize vials of product in lieu of filtering them. I apologize if I’m mistaken but that was my understanding. But it’s also my impression that filtering is a better than a dry heat sterilization. Someone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

"Terminal Sterilization", ie, heating a sealed vial to kill all bacteria is done in addition to filtering, as a quality control step to ensure absolute sterility of an injectable, killing anything not filtered out.
 

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