Yes Paige, that's what it says. Tamiflu is available as a capsule and also in a powder form which is mixed with water before drinking.
Now here's the interesting information. The capsule dosage contains Tamiflu in the salt form which is soluble in water, while the oral suspension contains Tamiflu in the base form (free-base for you party animals! LOL) which does not dissolve in water.
If Griffin tested real Tamiflu in a capsule containing the water soluble salt two things may have happen. The salts may not have fully dissolved in which case the low strength may have triggered a "not validated", or the concentration of the dissolved salts may have stratified also causing a "not validated" result.
In either case Griffin would have needed to shake-up the cuvette some more.
Also did you read this:?
"The capsule shell contains gelatin, titanium dioxide, yellow iron oxide, black iron oxide, and red iron oxide."
The contents of the capsule material makes it completely opaque to UV and the contents must be removed for testing.
CDEX staff have repeatedly claimed that Valimed can test solids, but that doesn't necessarily mean in their original solid dosage form. A powder is still a solid. And as Xeno has obviously pointed out, the new .25 cc cuvettes can hardly fit a solid dosage form of any kind. IMO.
Valimed is designed for liquids- PERIOD!
