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BAC Water 3 mL

BAC Water 3 mL is a laboratory consumable supplied in Australia by Australian Research Peptides (ARP). Sterile filtered. This 3 mL vial is in stock now and dispatched same business day when ordered before 12pm AEST, to all states and territories. For in vitro research purposes only.

Lab Supplies · Sterile Filtered Solution · Sterile filtered · SKU ARP-BAC-3
3 mL10 mL
In stock·Sterile Filtered
$15.99
Presentation
3 mL per vial
Grade
Sterile Filtered
Form
Sterile Filtered Solution
Category
Lab Supplies
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For in vitro research purposes only. Not for human consumption. Not for animal consumption. This product is not a drug, food, cosmetic, or dietary supplement. No medical, therapeutic, or dosing information is provided.

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About BAC Water 3 mL

Bacteriostatic water is plain water carrying an added preservative, used to dissolve a freeze-dried peptide and drawn from more than once. This is the 3 mL BAC Water vial, the smaller of two, listed as ARP-BAC-3.

No HPLC assay applies to a diluent, so each 3 mL lot is logged rather than assayed.

Australian Research Peptides lists the 3 mL vial in Lab Supplies as a laboratory consumable, not for human or veterinary use.

BAC Water 3 mL specifications, storage and shipping

  • Compound: BAC Water
  • Quantity: 3 mL
  • SKU: ARP-BAC-3
  • Presentation: sealed glass vial
  • Form: Sterile Filtered Solution
  • Grade: Laboratory consumable, sterile filtered
  • Batch verification: sterile filtered, with every lot recorded
  • Classification: In vitro research purposes only — laboratory reference material

Storage
Room temperature; refrigerate after opening
Format
Multi-dose (bacteriostatic)
Handle in accordance with standard laboratory safety practice, including appropriate PPE. This information is provided for laboratory handling only and is not a usage instruction of any kind.

Every lot is sterile filtered. No certificate of analysis is published for this line.

Business-day orders before 12pm AEST are dispatched the same day with tracked, discreet shipping. Standard delivery within Australia typically takes 2–5 business days. See Shipping & Delivery for details, and follow your parcel on the Track Order page.

For in vitro research purposes only. Not for human consumption. Not for animal consumption. Not a drug, food, cosmetic, or dietary supplement. No therapeutic or medical claims are made.

Questions about BAC Water 3 mL

This BAC Water 3 ml question guide from Australian Research Peptides is specific to the exact listing, with live buying details, size comparisons, concentration calculations, storage, testing and the inherited product background grouped separately. Start with the quick answers or jump to the topic you need.

Exact strength, quantity and listing fit

BAC Water's 10 mL vial is $22.99, $7.00 more than this 3 mL BAC Water one. Four of these cost $63.96, 2 mL to spare, so the bigger vial saves $40.97.

No — BAC Water 3 mL is $5.33 a millilitre against $2.30 for the 10 mL. It costs $7.00 less and holds 7 mL less.

Three millilitres, which reads as three hundred marks on a U-100 insulin syringe. It is the smaller of the two volumes Australian Research Peptides lists, and the one packed inside the peptide bundles.

Container, closure, labelling and postage cost much the same at either volume, so those fixed parts land on three millilitres rather than ten. Both water listings show a per-millilitre figure that makes the gap visible.

One peptide vial, a first order, or a top-up beside a larger diluent vial already opened. Three millilitres is the volume the bundles carry, so it matches what those boxes already contain.

Live price, stock and Australian buying

Australian Research Peptides (ARP) sells BAC Water 3 mL in Australia under ARP-BAC-3, at $15.99. Standard tracked post and Express Post carry BAC Water 3 mL to all states and territories.

BAC Water 3 mL is $15.99 a vial (ARP-BAC-3). Two 3 mL vials come to $31.98; the 5% multi-vial discount is peptides only.

Not on its own. BAC Water 3 mL is $15.99, $183.01 under $199. BAC Water clears it with thirteen 3 mL vials. BAC Water's 10 mL vial falls short too.

$28.98 delivered in Australia. BAC Water 3 mL is $15.99, plus $12.99 for ARP-BAC-3 by Standard tracked post. Express Post makes ARP-BAC-3 $32.98.

Nineteen. BAC Water 3 mL holds at $15.99 whatever the quantity, so nineteen 3 mL vials make $303.81 — past $299 for free Express Post.

Reconstitution and concentration calculations

The 3 mL and 10 mL vials hold identical water and differ only in how much of it you get. A 3 mL vial suits a single peptide reconstitution or a first order, and is the volume the bundles include. A 10 mL vial suits several reconstitutions and costs less per millilitre. Either way the clock starts at the first puncture rather than at delivery, so the larger vial is only better value if it is used inside that window.

An unopened Bacteriostatic Water vial belongs at room temperature and out of direct light, and putting it in the fridge achieves nothing. The preservative in it does the work that cold would otherwise have to. Refrigeration is a rule about reconstituted peptide, and it gets misapplied to the diluent constantly.

Bacteriostatic Water is stored at room temperature and not frozen, unlike the lyophilised peptides it is used to reconstitute. Keep the unopened vial out of direct light. Australian Research Peptides' stated condition for this grade is room temperature, then refrigeration after opening. The Bacteriostatic Water for Injection USP label gives 20 to 25 degrees Celsius. Discard any vial that has turned cloudy or shows particles.

Sound bacteriostatic water is clear, colourless and free of anything visible. The signs it should not be used are haziness, floating or settled particles, any tint at all, and a stopper or seal that is cracked, lifted or weeping. Benzyl alcohol restrains bacterial growth between withdrawals but does not keep a punctured vial sterile forever, and repeated entries without wiping the closure shorten what protection there is. Contamination can also leave the liquid looking unchanged, which is why the date of first puncture matters as much as appearance.

Bacteriostatic Water goes into the peptide vial slowly, running down the inside of the glass. Aim it away from the powder rather than straight onto the cake. Swirl or roll the vial gently until the liquid turns clear. Never shake it, because shaking foams a peptide solution. Let a cold vial reach room temperature first, so moisture does not condense on the powder.

At 1 mL per 10 mg peptide vial, a 3 mL Bacteriostatic Water vial covers three of them and a 10 mL covers ten. Using 2 mL per vial halves both figures. The real limit is usually time rather than volume, because a punctured water vial has a working life once its stopper is first pierced.

Bacteriostatic Water is the standard diluent for every lyophilised peptide Australian Research Peptides sells, from a 10 mg BPC-157 vial to a 100 mg GHK-Cu one. What changes between them is the volume, not the diluent. A published reconstitution calculator guide works that volume out for whichever concentration the work needs.

Bacteriostatic Water has no single right volume, because what you add fixes the concentration. Take the milligrams printed on the peptide vial and divide by the millilitres of water. Empty a whole 3 mL vial into a 30 mg peptide and you have 10 mg per mL. Use half the water and the same peptide gives 20 mg per mL. Australian Research Peptides' reconstitution calculator runs the sum for any pair.

It can. All three millilitres into a thirty-milligram peptide gives 10 mg/mL and leaves nothing behind, which is the tidiest use of this listing — no part-used water vial waiting in the fridge.

Two millilitres. A single millilitre drawn for a ten-milligram peptide leaves two behind — enough for two more one-millilitre make-ups, or one at two millilitres. Every draw pierces the same stopper.

Product identity and research background

Bacteriostatic Water is preserved water used as the liquid that dissolves a freeze-dried peptide before laboratory work. Peptides arrive as a dry cake with no liquid in the vial. Adding the water turns that solid into a solution at the concentration the work calls for, and the preservative allows the resulting vial to be drawn from more than once.

Bacteriostatic Water works by carrying a preservative that keeps microbial numbers from climbing between withdrawals. That is what makes repeated entry into one vial reasonable. It is not the same as sterilising. Anything already present is held in check rather than destroyed, so a vial still deserves clean handling. The label for the USP preparation describes repeated withdrawals from a single container.

An added preservative is the only thing separating Bacteriostatic Water from plain laboratory water. Bacteriostatic means the agent holds bacterial growth back rather than killing the organisms outright. Pfizer's prescribing information for Bacteriostatic Water for Injection USP, the standard preparation of this type, gives 9 mg of benzyl alcohol in every millilitre. The same label names an 11 mg per millilitre presentation, or 1.1 per cent, beside it. The agent and strength in Australian Research Peptides' own vials are not published. Contact us if that detail decides the order.

Bacteriostatic Water is sold by volume, so millilitres are the honest unit for it. The peptides are dry solids sold by mass, which is why those pages read in milligrams. Australian Research Peptides records the unit against each product rather than assuming one for the whole catalogue. A milligram figure on a liquid would describe nothing a buyer could act on.

Storage, condition and testing

Bacteriostatic Water keeps for around 28 days from first puncture, which is the conventional working limit and the period USP 797 — the United States compounding standard for sterile preparations — allows a multiple-dose container. The benzyl alcohol is what suppresses bacterial growth between entries, and that protection is not indefinite. Write the date on the vial when the seal is first broken, wipe the stopper each time, and discard it if the solution stops being clear.

No, Bacteriostatic Water from Australian Research Peptides is not the Hospira product, and ARP does not resell it. Hospira is a Pfizer brand whose 30 mL vial is a pharmaceutical preparation, labelled prescription-only in the United States. ARP supplies its own sterile-filtered vials in 3 mL and 10 mL. Different suppliers, different products.

Delivery, payment and access questions

Australian Research Peptides sells Bacteriostatic Water as a laboratory consumable and never as a medicine. Supply is for in vitro research, not for human or veterinary use. The pharmaceutical preparation of the same name is prescription-only in the United States, where its label reads Rx only. ARP gives no legal advice and publishes no view on Australian scheduling. Anyone unsure where their own work sits should ask a qualified adviser.

Bacteriostatic Water for Injection USP is an approved pharmaceutical article in America, produced under a manufacturer's application and carrying an Rx-only label. That approval covers those particular finished vials and nothing beyond them. A laboratory-grade diluent sold as a research consumable is a different article, outside the approval, whatever the two share chemically. Grade and regulatory standing are separate ideas.

More questions

One millilitre of Bacteriostatic Water reads as 100 marks on a U-100 insulin syringe. The Humulin R U-100 label sets that scale, at 100 units in every millilitre. Each mark is therefore 0.01 mL of whatever is drawn, so 20 marks is 0.2 mL. Australian Research Peptides publishes no graduation for its own syringe pack, so read the barrel you have. ARP publishes no amount for a person or an animal.

Bacteriostatic water is a diluent rather than an active medicine, and Australian Research Peptides supplies it as a laboratory consumable alongside its research peptides. ARP does not dispense it against a prescription. Pharmacy-supplied bacteriostatic water for clinical use is a separate supply chain with its own requirements.

The two Bacteriostatic Water listings hold 3 mL and 10 mL of the same liquid. Formulation, filtration, glass and preservative are identical across both. Only the amount in the vial changes. The pair exists so that a small working quantity or a larger one can be ordered without buying two vials of the same size.

Australian Research Peptides supplies bacteriostatic water as a laboratory consumable; Chemist Warehouse is a retail pharmacy, and any sterile-water product it carries is dispensed for approved medical use. That is a different purpose and a different supply route, so the two are not interchangeable even where the contents read alike. ARP sells it beside the research vial it reconstitutes, dispatched in the same parcel.

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