Analyses

When we analysed samples from Underground Laboratories, a member of our forum asked me if I wanted to do a  "special" on American samples. The market in the US is special from most parts of the world, the generic domestic American market that is. Because the Law Enforcement is so unbelievable strict on PED's (performence enhancing drugs) in street slang steroids, roids or anabolics the brands and sellers fluctuate more often than in other parts of the world.

This should be especially interesting for some US bodybuilders that know one or more of the analysed labs.

Since lots of analyses disappaered from the net since Body of Science forum is closed, some previous Mods of this notorious forum asked me to make them available again I have an enormous amount of analyses that I still have to open-scan and tag, but slowly I'll post then here. Four to start with!!

Basics of QC of oil-based parenterals.

Well, everybody knows that steroid based injections are faked. We will pass by the meter why it happens and will discuss how it happens and what could we do to avoid fakes. First of I would like to show you how the oil-based parentals are normally made. After that I’ll try to discover basics of quality testing and some advanced things in brief.

GHRH is a growth hormone releasing factor peptide that is comprised of either 44 or 40 amino acids and is abbreviated as GRF(1-29). The biologically active portion resides in the first 29 amino acids so the synthetic forms of GHRH are made up of just these 29 amino acids.

CJC-1295 has an added amino acid lysine which links to a drug affinity complex (DAC). CJC 1295 without DAC is modified GHRH or GRF(1-29).

Modified GRF(1-29) is a short-estered GHRH, while CJC-1295 is a long-estered GHRH. Effectively, the long-estered GHRH can be run once a week if you can find the real deal.
Since maufacturing CJC 1295 is a complex and costly process, most all CJC 1295 being currently sold is really GRF(1-29). This analysis confirmed this assumption!!

Its very profitable to buy GRF as middleman and sell them as CJC 1295-DAC

One of our members used this petide to get a nice tan. It’s a MT2 with a nice box with hologram. The top (with brand name), label and box are made in the same colour with great precision and it looks like a pharmaceutical item. The brandname and info are not traceble on the internet, thus it concerns a underground made product, most probably originating from China or India. Our member was very curious to its quality. That’s why I decided to run an analysis.

The brandname is Scenic batchnumber: 000001380 expiring: 01 december 2010

As you can easily see, the main compound has a MW  (Molecular Weight) of 1024.5 Da (Dalton) which is in accordance with the cyclic peptide.

However, there are a high number of minor contaminations in the sample which you see better in the zoom pictures.

A few of our members asked to post some analytical reports. There are a few ways to analyse a product in this case its fully analysed. They looked for water (Karl Fisher) mostly present if the API (active pharmaceutical ingredient aka raw powders) is not stored properly. The Ph (accidity) mostly due to unpure powders. The identity (if the compound is the compound labeled) in this case does the sample contain drostenolone propionate. The dose (the amount of active ingredients per milliliter). The heavy metals (those can build up in the body) We thought that most API's from India and China would possess a high content of metals -acids etc. That was the  main reason to analyse Underground laboratories.