FOUND THIS!!!!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Dear friend and fellow athlete,
We see lab tests posted every day on the internet. They’re usually posted on various steroid forums, with no person named as who they were originally sent to, and no signature at the bottom.
In my estimation, they’re useless, for the most part.
So when I was contracted to do a series of articles for xxxxxxxx.com about Balkan Pharmaceuticals, I immediately wanted to do one about their quality control and obtain lab tests showing what kind product they were actually putting out; and of course, I wanted them mailed directly to me from the lab, with signatures on everything. I wanted to own hard copy of everything, and I want someone’s name on each test, that would vouch for the legitimacy of each and every test.
San Rafael Chemical Services provided all of the latter. This required several things on my part. First, I had to contact the company who had conducted the tests and ask to talk about them. They were actually very accommodating. I made sure that each test was done on an unopened bottle, with the fliptop still previously attached, and that the identification numbers were intact and visible – which they all were. Why did I want this information? Well, because the bottles were sent in by a third party (not me), and if the tops weren’t on, or serial numbers were not present, then I would suspect that the bottle had been tampered with. In this case, however, everything was intact, and these bottles are EXACTLY what you would get if you got one straight from the factory.
The lab that did the testing personally confirmed all of that to me. Alright, I know you’re satisfied (as I was) that these tests are on the up and up now, so I’ll let you in on how they went.
Remember, the facts I’m presenting to you are the best ones I have…as far as I understand it, Balkan Pharmaceuticals makes several different lines of anabolics, some veterinary and some Human Grade, etc…the tests I have are only that…the tests I could personally get my hands on, regardless of product. So keep that in mind as you’re reading this. I spoke with SRCS several times on the phone regarding this series of tests, and corresponded with them via both e-mail and regular mail, just to make sure everything was on the up and up.
Unfortunately, not long after I finished writing this article, SRCS was the subject of an inquiry by the federal government for being involved with testing anabolics (see gray sidebar).
First, let’s talk about the basics, and that means we need to see how one of the Balkan Testosterone products stacks up.
We’re taking a look at Balkan Pharmaceuticals Sustamed 250, the first licensed pharmaceutical 4-ester blend to hit the market since Omnadren.
According to the HPLC (High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph) tests SRCS performed on this product, it came out to have an extra 10mgs of testosterone in it (260mgs/ml). This is obviously very accurately dosed, easily falling within FDA standards for accuracy. View the Sustamed 250 Lab Test.
Lately, I’ve been very interested in Multi-Ester blends, and if I were to buy a Balkan version of testosterone, this would be the one I’d be using. Balkan offers this product in several different presentations, so if you’re looking, they’ve got some bad-ass looking amps and boxes available. Ok, so now we know that there’s a nice accurate human grade blended testosterone product on the market. I’m pretty happy with that knowledge, as many people seem to be preferring the blended testosterones after my last article concerning steroid esters.
Since Negma discontinued their Parabolan product a couple of decades ago, there’s been no human grade Trenbolone on the market. Now, I have a couple of nice lab tests showing that Balkan Pharmaceuticals Trenbolone Forte (the Enanthate Ester) is within 3% of label claims (6 mgs over dosed, or 206mgs/ml instead of the label claim of 200), and their Trenbolone Retard (which uses the original ester from Parabolan) came in at 108mgs/ml (label claim is 100mgs/ml). View the Trenbolone Forte lab test.
For many people (professional bodybuilders especially), Tren is the drug they turn to right after testosterone. And of course, looking at the pictures of Balkan Pharmaceuticals Trenbolone products, you can certainly see that they have that dark gold/brown color which is the signature shade of trenbolone. Now, remember, although there’s a lot of lab tests floating around, I’m only using the ones which SRCS directly signed and sent to me, which examined unopened bottles with the serial numbers intact. So this means I do not actually have a test for every single product Balkan Pharmaceuticals produces, but I have a lot, and I’m very pleased with the results for the most part.
Their quality control seems to favor overdosing in most cases, and is generally very reasonably accurate.
So let’s take a look at some of the orals I’ve seen tests for… I’ve gotten my hands on 2 tests for the varying doses available of Strombafort (Stanozolol) tabs (10mg and 50mg sizes respectively). The 50mg tabs tested out at a very accurate 50.5mgs/tab and the 10mg tabs tested out to be 10.6mgs/tab. View the lab tests for the 10mg tabs and the 50mg tabs.
Needless to say, I’m very happy with that result. Again, this is basically within FDA guidelines. I believe that these lab tests show everything that they can; in other words, Balkan Pharmaceuticals has produced a line of products which contain what they should, and are dosed to within acceptable parameters. I would personally have no reservations using their products in my future cycles, as long as I were in a part of the world where that was legal…