This document provides details on procedures and acceptance criteria for qualifying various components of an HPLC instrument, including:
1. The solvent delivery system is tested for flow rate accuracy at different flow rates and gradients, with acceptance criteria of ±5.0% for isocratic and ±2.0% for gradient methods.
2. The injector is tested for volume precision and carryover, with limits of RSD ≤ 1.0% and carryover ≤ 0.2%.
3. The detector is tested for linearity using caffeine standards, with an r2 acceptance criterion of ≥0.99900, and for wavelength accuracy across caffeine's maxima and minima, with a limit of ±2nm