Every step of this process is wrong and this guy is seriously going to give someone a deadly infection…
I'd be very surprised if even 10% of these illegal pharmaceutical companies own a laminar flow hood or a set of pipettes. Caden Peck probably had better sterile technique growing mushrooms on pasteurized horse shit than some mentally ill third worlder selling unregulated medicine to minors.
Has anyone actually put the thing under a microscope or ran chemical analysis, let alone done quality control?
You may be dismayed to learn that the answer is yes.
TeaHRT, a "highly reputable" American vendor that allegedly employs two chemists and uses a "high quality filtration process," has lab reports from
Janoshik Analytical. This is a small Czech firm that appears capable of performing mass spectrometry.
While I have
no reason to doubt the legitimacy of Janoshik's methods, looking through the public tests reveals something very interesting: they appear to almost exclusively validate scams like random Chinese suppliers of research chemicals, illegal steroid manufacturers, and of course illegal transgender hormone manufacturers.
One of their most recent clients is
PeptideGurus, which supposedly sells peptides (basically the building blocks of proteins) but
recently tested semaglutide, a drug for fat people. This site is sketchy for several reasons, among them the American address and Chinese phone number, the fact that they use Telegram for customer service, etc. Those aren't things that
legitimate chemical suppliers will typically do.
I've looked through a few lab test reports and so far, they all seem to use the same random lab that's suspiciously adjacent to other endeavors that are shady if not outright illegal. Actually, here's a list of all the "homebrew" operations with lab results. All but one use the same lab:
I highly doubt the average troon has any idea how to interpret these results. They just want to see that someone sent a sample of a batch to a lab once, and that it contained roughly the advertised quantity of estrogen. They wouldn't necessarily know or care, for example, that the "highly reputable" TeaHRT is contaminated with vinegar, or that AstroVials preparations are compounded in benzyl benzoate, a topical insect repellent. Researching more into the schizophrenic FAQs of these sites, most or all of them use benzyl benzoate because they're deluded by some guy's blog post from 10 years ago into thinking that using an outdated scabies treatment is an appropriate substitute for a real antimicrobial agent in their products.
Looking closer at the lab results, it seems like most of the contamination comes from their habit of using MCT oils from the supermarket as a carrier for the estrogens. There are often trace amounts of random fatty acids that while not harmful, no legitimate pharmaceutical company would knowingly allow in their products without a specific reason for it to be present in the formulation.
Digging a little deeper into Janoshik, the registration number of 17668727 on
their website and a
Czech database matches. For some reason, unless Google Translate is trolling me, they're listed as a real estate management firm. "Předmět činnosti: pronájem nemovitostí, bytů a nebytových prostor." It's owned by someone called Peter Magic who paid CZK 10,000 for it, who has hosted other businesses at the address including
Narchem s.r.o., another real estate firm secondarily involved in "testování, měření, analýzy a kontroly," or measurement and analysis in the field of "natural and technical sciences."
I have no clue what's going on in Prague, but it looks like some guy bought an HPLC machine to rubber stamp quasilegal peddlers of hormone supplements for profit. This is what gives troonshine producers a veneer of authenticity, right along with shady Chinese companies selling steroids and other random drugs for "research purposes only." I gotta leave this for others to dig deeper, but apparently Janoshik is
the lab for steroid spergs and has a very mixed reputation, including allegations of altering test results.
Just looking at the preferred testing lab led me down an unexpectedly deep rabbit hole. There's probably an equally disturbing story behind
Trans Harm Reduction, the organization that handles testing through Janoshik. Anyway, to end this unintentionally long post, just compare these two clients of Janoshik and tell me there isn't something very wrong going on here.
www.indiatoday.in
on that one.
