Identify Mystery Powder, Ordered Pyritinol from Cerebral Health, got something different. Options

[kagaos]

Alright, well I ordered bulk Pyritinol from CH and got it in today.
I was excited to try it out so I measured out 400mg and downed it.

Now, I found something stating that pyritinol is supposed to taste nasty and be water soluble.
Surprisingly, the bulk powder I got fit neither of these criteria. It was tasteless, and highly hydrophobic.

My first thought was, OH SHIT what if it's huperzine a!? I called them and they assured me it wouldn't be. But they couldn't confirm for me that it was pyritinol. All he could say was that "it is what it is...we just got this new shipment in...it is what it is..."

Long story short I just want to know if cerebral health sells anything that is a hydrophobic, tasteless, off-white powder that could harm me in the dosage of 400mg?

[Hey Hey]

I received another confirmation from manufacturing that what you received was pure pyritinol, but I am still holding off on putting pyritinol back up on the CH website until further analysis is complete.

I can run an IR and check melting point and such and upload the spectrum on here if you like. All I need is a few mg and we can figure out exactly what we have

What about your credentials? (This is the internet after all! )

I'm a little unclear on what 'credentials' are necessary to tell if pyritinol dissolves in water or oil, or to suggest that different gross solubilities call its identity into question. I assume GC would say if he thought kagos was in error regarding these simple assertions.

Do you know kagos personally? Credentials relate to things such as purity of water used, temperature/pressure at which solubility is determined, qualification/experience of experimenter, authentication of product, etc. We don't know who most people here are. We could all be loonies trying to discredit GC and his company. GC needs a sample of the product and packaging codes etc from kagos so that he can determine if it is authentic. Then he needs to look at the supply chain to verify that the product is what it should be. Also GC should be looking at P stocks at his company storage facility to determine that they are actually P. THis whole set of information - kagos's product/package, GC's supply chain info, GC's present stocks of P - should help to work out what has gone wrong if anything.

GC, have there been any other customer comments about the product?

[chrono]

Do you know kagos personally? Credentials relate to things such as purity of water used, temperature/pressure at which solubility is determined, qualification/experience of experimenter, authentication of product, etc. We don't know who most people here are. We could all be loonies trying to discredit GC and his company. GC needs a sample of the product and packaging codes etc from kagos so that he can determine if it is authentic. Then he needs to look at the supply chain to verify that the product is what it should be. Also GC should be looking at P stocks at his company storage facility to determine that they are actually P. THis whole set of information - kagos's product/package, GC's supply chain info, GC's present stocks of P - should help to work out what has gone wrong if anything.

Kagos told us how he conducted the experiment, and that he returned the product. Pointing out that we really don't know anything about him doesn't serve any useful purpose at this point, and places him in the position of having to somehow prove that he conducted a simple experiment perfectly, and personally has no reason to want to discredit a company—both impossible proofs, honestly, even if we did know him personally.

Rather, my point was that GC is more than capable of determining what the cause of this may be, without us speculating about ulterior motives without any current reason to do so, and placing another user in a defensive position just to point out a basic property of internet communication.

Pyritinol is a nootropic that many people find very neutral-feeling, so a (putative) problem like this might not be apparent unless someone thought to check the taste or solubility against other reports.

I'd be curious to see some actual solubility data for this compound. I'll look around if I can get to a library this weekend.