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Hattie,

"IG - referring to your previous response, is "coloration" equivalent to "degradation"? "

From the same patent:
00116] In some embodiments, a method described herein can be used to determine if a heparin preparation (e.g., an unfractionated heparin preparation or a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) preparation) is at risk for coloration. Some heparin
preparations have limited shelf life due, at least in part, to the development of color is the preparation during storage. The phrase coloration means greater than 0.2 absorbance units in an accelerated stability test such as the calorimetric analysis described in U.S. Publication no.: 20080318328.