Counterfeit Anabolic Steroids Finally Come to an End

Trying to identify counterfeit anabolic steroids with the naked eye is a game that you don’t want to play. This isn’t the 1980’s, where you could spot counterfeits by looking at certain types of ink on a box, or colors that weren’t perfect on a bottle... this is a whole new ball game. If you think you can spot fakes, then you’re mistaken. If you’ve been able to do it in the past, then it was a crappy fake.

Last week Anthony Roberts, author of the best-selling e-book Beyond Steroids, told us about Balkan Pharmaceuticals, a new entry into the human grade market. If you’re anything like me, you probably thought “oh great… a new legit company always means new counterfeits too.”

And you’d be correct. But, there\'s a light at the end of the tunnel. In this weeks EliteFitness.com News, Anthony Roberts, shares with us some new tactics that Balkan is using to discourage counterfeiting. This stuff is really ingenuous and completely new. Enjoy!

The End of Counterfeit Anabolic Steroids, Finally
From the desk of Anthony Roberts
Professional Bodybuilding Coach
and author of Beyond Steroids

Think you can look on the internet, look up some pics of “legitimate” products, and just compare them to your own? Here’s a hot tip: Counterfeiters go on the internet and post pictures of their own fake/counterfeit products all over, proclaiming them as “the real deal” and “gave me great gains”. Hell… anyone can post a pic of a product on the internet, and say “this is real”… even if it isn’t. In fact… go to the pictures forum on a steroid site and look at the “expert” feedback and people who are identifying all the fake products… more often than not, those are the people actually dealing the products. And when you post a pic of a product that might not be real…you get a nice private message from a “bro” who will help you identify fakes, or direct you to a “totally legit friend” who most certainly has the real deal version of the products you are looking for…

I’m sure you see where I’m going with that one.

Maybe you should buy a book with photos of legit products? Surely that would work, right? Wrong. As soon as those books come out, the first people in line to buy them are the counterfeiters. They get nice, glossy, high resolution photos of legitimate products, and they head right to their scanner, and begin printing out labels for all their new counterfeits.

I’ll be totally honest and say that when I wrote a recent article/interview with someone from the former “Ttokkyo” labs, the guy who I interviewed pointed out about 2 counterfeit products that I inadvertently used photos of, and thought were totally legit.

Ttokkyo is gone now, and most people still don’t know what was fake or real… Quality Vet has been gone for years, and there’s still counterfeits on the market with expiration dates that would probably put us into the next decade.

So what’s the solution?

Although Balkan is a new pharmaceutical company, I’m sure all the counterfeiters and bootleggers are going to try their usual games to try and knock off the products and earn a buck off someone else’s quality name. That’s how this (under)world works. If you’re going to make a counterfeit watch, you make a fake Rolex not a Timex.

Firstly, Balkan Pharmaceuticals has unique packaging and even imprinted logos and raised seals on the products… and some other stuff that will make counterfeiting those products difficult… if not impossible.

However, and more important than anything else that could be done to avoid counterfeiting, Balkan Pharmaceuticals has in place an interesting anti-counterfeiting system, called the "Unique Product Identification Code" (UPIC). The UPIC system insures that every Balkan Pharmaceuticals product is issued a unique individual identification code. The management at Balkan Pharmaceuticals understands the worldwide pharmaceuticals market, and has obviously kept up with it in recent years when fakes of everything from Deca to Winstrol have flooded the world market.

Anyway, This UPIC code is printed on every individual label, and is unique to that product and batch. The Code can be entered online to give you (or any legitimate customer) access to important information about the unique and individual product purchased, such as the original date of production, the batch number and other information. In this age of technology, let’s face it: Holograms are just about useless. The UPIC code is really cutting edge, in this regard.

I guess almost any brand or product can have something similar, but the thing that I think really sets Balkan apart is that you can also see the number of times that unique production identification code has been entered online. So that means since each and every product code is not only unique, but that the end user can tell if their product’s unique UPIC has been accessed. If you see 100 inquiries into that product number…then you may have good reason to suspect that there may be counterfeits going around with that (fake) UPIC number on them.

Counterfeits are a way of life in the underground steroid world, but I think that Balkan Pharmaceuticals will be a step ahead of the counterfeiters with their innovations.

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