We are conducting research on early stage embryos and have twice now received a bad batch of media from our commercial supplier. This is extremely costly in time and funds. I am wondering if there is an analytic method to testing the quality of the media. I know the most obvious answer is to QC with "test" embryos but those are not readily available. Is there a way to check the composition via hplc, MS, ect to come up with a qualitative analysis compared against a "good" batch of media?
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