I have been watching a few domestic sources for a minute now...
But I still think learning to homebrew is the best option...
Well, you'll be confident that any infection you get didn't come from the brewing process, but that's it.
I've seen guys make posts perplexed saying they don't understand why a ugl would purposely brew weak under-dosed gear? They say if the ugl could only stop being dishonest and stop cutting corners, that must include cutting their raws to stretch product, they would be so very successful.
Some guys seem to imply that most ugl's are run by the criminally insane who can't help under dosing the gear they brew? Of course it sounds quite simple. It actually is but the proper steps have to be taken.
@eje1990, you'll be in the same boat as most of the ugl's that cruise through meso and every other board. You'll either go to Alibaba or some other Chinese online market or you'll hit up a raw supplier you see posting and advertising on a board.
You'll be excited and set out to brew gear for your next cycle expecting to finally have a product you can inject knowing its going to be clean and dosed properly.
If it was that easy, all these fucking ugl's would be successful and all the bloods and test results on their gear would be what they are supposed to be. The ugl aren't stupid in that most do not intentionally cut their raws and knowingly underdose their gear. They see how labs are sunk week after week because of testing.
Its like with scamming sources of the past. They would get guys to order for the first time. The buyer is cautious and puts in a small test order to be sure things are cool. That first order is filled and the guy is psyched.
The next order he has no reason to think it won't be a repeat performance. He takes money from friends and sets out to make some cash and have his gear paid for by his people. The first order was maybe $100. This one is gonna be awesome and is $1,300. He's nervous but has been told by his contact all is good. The stated TA comes and goes. Guys want their $$ back and dude picks up the needle he put down 6 months ago when he began working out and found his savior, ALIN SHOP. Guy figures the amount that kept him well will feel really nice right about now. He can forget about ALIN if just for a few hrs.
Since he put dope down, his dealer fell in with a new supplier who has been ordering raws of a different kind from China. He buys and mixes in one of those nifty fentanyl analogues.
Our friend looking to kick back with what once was a mid level dose bangs it and floats away forever. His body is discovered by his parents next to his computer with that needle in his arm as well as his stash of ALIN's gear. The steroids made him do it! That's what the papers say, anyway.
That's a true story but has only a little to do with us in this thread.
My point in telling that little gem is that the raw suppliers out of china you will be ordering from will do the same thing. Your first order of raws may be solid. You can count of them being fucked with at some point very soon. Its how the chinese stretch profits and why ugl's start strong and crap out.
The answer is consistent testing on your raw powders. The ugl's must test the raws before brewing. All of them. Resellers posing as ugl's must insist that the guys they buy from test powders before brewing and back themselves up by random testing of finished products they receive. The consumer(you and I) must insist our sources test their products whether its raws or finished product they are selling us and they only way to keep them honest is to do random but consistent testing and post up results.
Testing has only been available for a short time. Once testing is commonplace and it starts to hurt the bottomlines of ugl's, sources, and finally the Chinese we will start to see more positive bloods and tests on the raws and finished products.
If you go to different boards across the net you will see some that are just being turned on to labmax type testing. Remember when that was all we had. It was as if we had just invented fire. Our excitement couldn't be contained.
Other boards have no active testing. The guys who aren't online and who buy from a guy at the gym have no idea such a thing exists? Their idea of testing is if the big guy they buy from is actually using the product he sells them.
This is the beginning and better days are coming in the way of widespread affordable testing. The problem is going to be getting the stuff into our country safely. I'm concerned, to say the least.