I am a rep for a rather large supplement company, similar to the way the company reps on this forum act and behave.
I was clearly educated and informed from the start by our companies lawyers any lawsuits brought towards the company, I could easily get pulled into and penalized for if involved in any sort of way.
Back when prohormones were legal, my company produced them, in addition to many legal supplements. When the fda raided our facility during a time when these prohormones were still freakin legal, my information in addition to all other reps information was turned over to the fda and I was contacted by the fda in regards to the situation. I was instructed by our lawyers what to say, what not to say, and what kind of trouble I could get in to which was scary.
Luckily, my company complied with the fda 100%, everyone did everything right, and nothing was brought against me or the company besides having to quarantine wayyy to much superdrol and others prohormones that the fda counted and later made us turn them over and destroy them. I'm glad my company had my back and protected myself as well as the rest of the reps so well.
Sure is scary.. that is for the clearly legal market. I would be slightly paranoid if I was rep for a gray area business. I always questioned if these reps repping for research companies truly understand what they are involved with..
At the time this all went down, I was just an online rep, I had no real affiliation with the company, i wasnt paid, just given free products, i didn't fill out tax papers, etc. I just went about my buisness, promoted our products online and got a box of free supplements a month.
Luckily now, I do the same job but I am paid monthly, given compensation for bodybuilding expenses, more free products than I could possibly use a month, and given all sorts of clothing, training gear, etc.
I still will never forget that experience it always sticks in the back of my mind..