Due to the high popularity of steroids among athletes, there are many who want to get rich on this. Find out how you can recognize counterfeit steroids. Many athletes are interested in the question of how it is possible to identify fake anabolic steroids without performing complex chemical analyzes. Today, this is exactly what the conversation will go on.
Checking the quality of steroids
If anabolic steroids have already been purchased, then it is too late to consider labels. However, do not despair. Since there is a way to check the quality of the drug at home.
- To do this, you have to sacrifice some of the pills and take at least 20 milligrams of the drug, but better than 100 milligrams.
- Crush the tablets as thoroughly as possible.
- Add several tens of grams of acetone to the resulting powder and mix.
- After that, the container with the solution should be tightly closed and put on for one hour.
- Then pass the acetone through a filter material such as a coffee filter and wait for the filtered acetone to evaporate.
When no particles appear in the residue, then there is no steroid preparation in the tablets or the active substance is contained in a very low concentration.
There is also a way to determine the concentration of an active substance. It should be said right away that you will again have to part with a certain amount of AAS and carry out several weighings.
Remove the powder from the filter material and dilute it again in acetone, having previously ground it again. The filter material should also be washed in acetone. This process must be repeated until the remainder is no longer restored. If the dosage of the active ingredient is correct, then the amount of residue should correspond to the inscription on the label. Of course, these methods will not be able to identify the steroid, but very often counterfeit anabolic steroids do not contain active substances.
Outward signs of fake steroids
Most often, drugs produced by popular brands are counterfeited. Most people prefer well-known companies, and in this case, the income from the sale of fakes will be higher. The most popular drug for counterfeiting is the domestic methandrostenolone produced by Akrikhin.
This steroid is one of the most widespread and even despite the low cost of the original, the income will be large due to the high demand for it. It is not always necessary to counterfeit expensive drugs, as happened with methandrostenolone. A large number of different counterfeit drugs have been spotted. First, the sale of methandrostenolone in bulk in polyethylene cans. Secondly, there are often tablets packed in old-style blisters. In the latter case, it is enough to go to the official web resource of the manufacturer and find out how the package should look now. Sustanon-250 is no less common among fake anabolic steroids. It is also a very popular anabolic that everyone involved in sports has heard of. The rights to release this AAS belong to the Dutch company "Organon", but it is produced in many countries under different names. The original drug is produced by Organon subsidiaries. On the domestic market, you can often find fake sustanon-250, produced in Turkey, Egypt and Holland.
The strongest protection against counterfeiting is sustanon, made in Pakistan, and its counterfeiting is extremely rare. If you look at an ampoule of Egyptian sustanon and a fake one, you will immediately notice a different shape of the ampoule and the method of applying an inscription on it. For the original steroid, this is glass printing.
Due to the almost complete lack of protection, the products of the Polish company "Elfa" were very quickly discredited. The Omnadren-250 produced by it was quite good and effective, but due to the flurry of counterfeit products, it is now very risky to purchase this steroid. A similar situation happened with the Hungarian manufacturer of AAS, Gedeon Richter. The retabolil produced by her did not have any means of protection, and it was not difficult to reproduce the ampoule formulas and the usual paper label.
The next in line is the popular soundboard produced by Norma Ellas and the aforementioned Dutch Organon. Both drugs are packaged in 2 ml ampoules, and there are several options for counterfeiting each steroid.
It is worth noting that the drug from "Norma Ellas" has a surprisingly high enough quality and is manufactured in Bulgaria. The only difference from the original is the lack of packaging and ampoules are sold in bulk. With the drug from the famous "Organon", everything is much easier. Also, counterfeit anabolic steroids are deprived of packaging, and there are enough discrepancies on the label with the original to reveal low-quality products.
Another domestic enterprise that suffered from the "shadow dealers" is "PharmaDon". True, by the time counterfeits appeared on the market, the manufacturer had stopped producing all AAS, except for testosterone propionate. After that, the market was literally flooded with falsifications, which were allegedly produced by the company's branches. Counterfeit packaging repeats the design of old packaging.
But primobolan-depot from the German "Schering AG" belongs to those types of counterfeit anabolic steroids that have a high cost, and all the hopes of "shadow workers" are placed on the big name of the manufacturer of original products. It is quite easy to distinguish a low-quality product from the original, since it is quite difficult to repeat the packaging design.
Of course, on the "black market" you can find much more counterfeit AAS, but today we talked about the most popular of them. It is when purchasing the above drugs that you should be careful. Better yet, buy steroids in specialty stores that sell sports pharmacology.
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