Is Balkan Pharma pharma or ugl?

[Millard]

I thought it would be a good idea to drop this information here:

The Moldovian Prime Minister thinks pretty highly of "Balkan Pharmaceuticals". Just saying...

http://www.gov.md/libview.php?l=en&id=6189&idc=436

Acting Prime Minister Vlad Filat today paid a visit to the “BalkanPharmaceuticals” pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Singera town

Attending the event were also Deputy Health Minister Octavian Grama, the director general of the Moldovan Medicines Agency, Alexandru Coman, the director general of the "BalkanPharmaceuticals" company, Silviu Chiru and Singera mayor Valeriu Poiata.

Filat said he had decided to visit this factory, which was under construction, because it was the second largest in Europe and also because the pharmaceutical field was rather important for Moldova. Filat visited production departments, which are 80 per cent done now and are going to be functional in September.

"I am very glad that such an important investment has been made in Moldova. Please continue the investments, because the Moldovan pharmaceutical market needs them," Filat said.

For his part, Chiru said Moldova was strategically positioned, which would allow the export of pharmaceutical products to the Commonwealth of Independent States. In this context, Filat assured that Moldovan exports on the EU market would soon boost up, once the free trade agreement was signed.

The "BalkanPharmaceuticals" pharmaceutical factory has been active on the Moldovan market since 2007. The company has currently 80 employees and produces 127 types of medicine.

"The price of several pharmaceutical products have decreased by at least 50 per cent since our appearance on the market," Chiru said.

Chiru said the new factory would hire almost 400 employees, whereas the number of products would considerably increase. The director general said experts had already planned the construction on the same area of a special building, where antibiotics would be manufactured.

The factory complies with international standards and drugs good manufacturing practices. The total area of the factory reaches 18.000 square meters, whereas the total investment amounts to almost 38 million euros.

At the end of the visit, the acting prime minister wished the investors success and thanked them for investing in Moldova.

FYI, it's not "their" website; the article was NOT from the "Balkan Pharmaceutical" website.

It was on the official website of the Government of Republic of Moldova. And if I want to know what the Moldovian government thinks, it doesn't get any more official than that.

BP clearly has origins in underground. I believe BP represents the first time a source tried to "go legit" by "registering" a steroid laboratory as a pharmaceutical company in a country where the barrier to entry was low. BP is the model that many others sources/UGLs tried to follow (with varying degrees of success).

The motivations for doing this are many. Some just wanted a cover for the UGL operations. Some may have really wanted the ability to produce higher quality products. A few may have realized that there is infinitely more money in the legitimate pharmaceutical business than the limited AAS-using bodybuilding base.

Many people are skeptical with perception along the lines of 'once a UGL always a UGL'. Many have failed e.g. President Obama going after Asia Pharma. Others have made efforts to distance themselves from the bodybuilding/underground market e.g. Unigen.

And there's always the possibility that some have succeeded in making the transition e.g. Balkan. It seems more likely than the alternative of a conspiracy infiltrating the highest levels of the Moldovan government.

I don't think it's a question of legitimacy. It's probably not the right word. BP is likely just as legitimate as any other pharma in former Soviet republic at this point in time. But because of the corruption you mentioned, that does not necessarily make it a good company with quality product.

BP may never make it into the EU market. I don't know how likely it is that Moldova will ever be part of the EU. But they may not need to in order to be successful. There are a lot of people in CIS countries

 

[Millard]

The Moldovian Prime Minister thinks pretty highly of "Balkan Pharmaceuticals". Just saying...

http://www.gov.md/libview.php?l=en&id=6189&idc=436

Acting Prime Minister Vlad Filat today paid a visit to the “BalkanPharmaceuticals” pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Singera town

Attending the event were also Deputy Health Minister Octavian Grama, the director general of the Moldovan Medicines Agency, Alexandru Coman, the director general of the "BalkanPharmaceuticals" company, Silviu Chiru and Singera mayor Valeriu Poiata.

Filat said he had decided to visit this factory, which was under construction, because it was the second largest in Europe and also because the pharmaceutical field was rather important for Moldova. Filat visited production departments, which are 80 per cent done now and are going to be functional in September.

"I am very glad that such an important investment has been made in Moldova. Please continue the investments, because the Moldovan pharmaceutical market needs them," Filat said.

For his part, Chiru said Moldova was strategically positioned, which would allow the export of pharmaceutical products to the Commonwealth of Independent States. In this context, Filat assured that Moldovan exports on the EU market would soon boost up, once the free trade agreement was signed.

The "BalkanPharmaceuticals" pharmaceutical factory has been active on the Moldovan market since 2007. The company has currently 80 employees and produces 127 types of medicine.

"The price of several pharmaceutical products have decreased by at least 50 per cent since our appearance on the market," Chiru said.

Chiru said the new factory would hire almost 400 employees, whereas the number of products would considerably increase. The director general said experts had already planned the construction on the same area of a special building, where antibiotics would be manufactured.

The factory complies with international standards and drugs good manufacturing practices. The total area of the factory reaches 18.000 square meters, whereas the total investment amounts to almost 38 million euros.

At the end of the visit, the acting prime minister wished the investors success and thanked them for investing in Moldova.

Politics.

Moldovan Acting Prime Minister Vlad Filat in 2009-2013 was a big fan of Balkan Pharmaceuticals.

But Moldovan Acting Prime Minister Gheorghe Brega in 2015-2016 was long-time critic of Balkan Pharmaceuticals.

Brega accused Balkan Pharma of producing low-quality products intended primarily for diversion to the bodybuilding/doping black market.

Gheorghe Brega in 2013:

Google translate from Inca un investitor vrea sa plece. Balkan Pharmaceuticals nu exclude retragerea capitalului din RM):

"They are not Interested to make drugs, anabolic steroids but, muscles Develop preparations, preparations have Used in Gyms. THEY learned That Will we have a new Law That Would Ban Their use and Attempts to make trouble. THEY I know you have to go. There, all medicines have Produced from raw material of increasingly poor quality, Without valid. There has major violations Ther. I put salt in the queue and THEY REACT."

Google translate from Răspunsul lui Brega: „Medicamentul nu trebuie să otrăvească cetățenii”

"I must mention that the company Balkan Pharmaceuticals is the only company that produces and records prepared group anabolic steroids, which are part of doping substances with high risk and smuggling try to take in Romania, proven case of one of the TV stations. The main reason that this company wants to leave the country, is that Parliament has worked on a bill that will prohibit the manufacture anabolic steroids. Balkan Pharmaceuticals company has registered 89 forms in this group, "said Liberal. According to him, in 2006, the company wanted to open business in Romania and that is exactly the period in Romania is the legislative procedure Law. 104/2008 on preventing and combating illicit trafficking of doping substances with high risk. "Immediately came and invested in Moldova. And this noble intention not to create jobs and invest in the country, but aces meet petty economic interests."

Balkan Pharmaceuticals Director Silviu rejected the accusations by Gheorghe Brega:

Google translate from: Reprezentanţii Balkan Pharmaceuticals vin cu acuzaţii: Gheorghe Brega exercită presiuni asupra întreprinderii

"He makes unfounded statements, without presenting any supporting document. These pressures are being exerted against us, because the bidding for the purchase of drugs starts in August. We suspect that all these attacks are related to the auction being to be and they want to be. intimidate us."

Google translation:

January 26, 2013

Press release

For immediate release

Balkan Pharmaceuticals's response to the allegations brought to the company by Liberal MP Gheorghe Brega

following the appearance in the Romanian press of the article, “Romanian press criticizes Chirtoacé's party from
the cause of Brega's pressures ”about the Unimedia portal, the Liberal deputy continued the accusations
Unfounded Take the address of our company, féré to bring arguments worthy of a deputy and not of 0 person with
medical studies. With this gesture, the deputy Brega only confirmed the fact of the persecution of the company.

About the quality and conditions of production of medicines

Starting with August 2008, Balkan Pharmaceuticals has successfully implemented and maintains its system
quality management SR EN ISO 9001: 2001 (International Organization for Standardization). Both matter
the first, as well as the finished product, series by series, are subject to quality control within the Laboratory regarding
Quality Control of the Medicine within the Medicines Agency of the Republic of Moldova. Each product
Medicament placed on the market has the corresponding quality certificate.

Reference standards are used to verify the quality of raw materials and products
procured from the European Pharmacopoeia, considered as a reference for the Republic of Moldova.

GMP Certificates

Deputy Gheorghe Brega comes with legal attacks in the elementary ignorance of the legislation in
field. Until the moment, in the Republic of Moldova there were no legal provisions that describe the way
for obtaining GMP certificates. According to the new drug authorization regulation, GMP rules
will become mandatory for all domestic producers starting with June October 2013. The company
we are fully prepared for the certification in question.

What Anabolic Steroids Are

The deputy takes advantage of the fact that most of the population is not familiar with the medical terms on which
he uses them speculatively to make unfounded attacks on the investor Balkan Pharmaceutics. to
at the moment in the company portfolio there are only 11 preparations out of a total of 200 names that can be positioned
as anabolic steroids and not 86 as stated by Deputy Gheorghe Brega

Anabolics steroids are indicated in anemia, denutrition in oncological,
HIV / AIDS, osteoporosis, major surgery, acute and chronic infections, growth retention and development
physical in premature, myocardial infarction, myocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, gastric and duodenal ulcer,
the consequences of radiation therapy, diabetes, complex treatment of liver cirrhosis and palliative treatment of
breast cancer in women. Anabolics steroid use is a global practice, benefit
patient when strictly adhering to the indications and rational use.
The production of these drugs is legal and authorized by the state institutions.
We express our deep regret for the illegal and unfounded actions of Deputy Brega at the address
Pharmaceutics Balkan company. MP Gheorghe Brega abuses as head of the Commission
interdepartmental control, providing false information and carrying out inspections illegal. The list of duties
commissions of inquiry, provided in art. 36 Law for the Adoption of the Parliament Regulation no. 797 - XIII
of 02/04/1996, not specified task for controls. Out of 30 local producers
Deputy Gheorghe Brega carried out inspections on a single manufacturer - Balkan Pharmaceuticals.
No statement made by Gheorghe Brega has any basis. His arguments lack coverage
justification, being trivial political statements and speculations, which create an unfavorable investment image both
for us and for the Republic of Moldova.
The absurd and unfounded in this respect is the statement made vis - a - vis that "all
medical institutions should be said that noted poor quality of medicines produced by
our company and a very low efficiency ”. I never received any notification from any institution
medical or from the Medicines Agency on some efficacy issues of our products.
Moreover, part of the public medical institutions, including the Oncological Institute, wanted to conclude
additional contracts for the purchase of medicines produced by our company.
Contrôlée made after complaints d - How's Deputy

 

[Jswole220]

Balkan is 100% pharma grade. SP labs is a UGL owned by Balkan. Balkan obviously still caters to the BB community hints they carry tren which is why some swear they are ugl. When I was in the military I saw Balkan sold in pharmacies in Europe and certain medicines are used in Hospitals. It’s 100% pharma grade.

 

[Grozny]

Both brands are manufactured in the same labs cuz its same owner.

 

[Steroidify Rep]

Here I would like to insist because a company has a licence in the most corrupt east European country how much is it worth if you can buy this licence instead of following strict regulations?

We're not debating this.

Pharmaceutical grade drugs are the ones made by a company that's legally registered as a pharmaceutical company.

The country where it's registered doesn't matter. And, obviously, you can have good drugs made by a UGL lab and bad stuff made by a pharmaceutical company.

I am not talking that bp is Bullshit. I know the exact opposite is the case!
I just wanted to compare country pharma licences in countries you easily can buy one against strict, less corrupt countries like USA and Germany... That's all.

A product approved by a more strict health department will normally be a better, cleaner product. Nothing new about that and has nothing to do with the definition of pharmaceutical grade drug, which is what we're discussing here.

And vast majority of raws nowadays come from China, even ones used by Bayer, Schering, etc...

 

[Steroidify Rep]

@Steroidify Rep don’t you have some shitty spam articles to go write? Maybe you and your team could go write another “2500mg testosterone is safe dosage, 700mg for woman is safe” summary about testosterone dosages. The first one was great, I’ve been anticipating a new one for awhile now..

Nah, today I just feel like educating you.

 

[Tmisatix]

I was just looking at Balkan’s official site and they even make medication for children? It looks legit , but I always thought alpha, pharmacon, gpz, etc, we’re just UGL’s with a big factory , better quality control and more money.

 

[adnansanat]

I was just looking at Balkan’s official site and they even make medication for children? It looks legit , but I always thought alpha, pharmacon, gpz, etc, we’re just UGL’s with a big factory , better quality control and more money.

There was an UGL shit called for "NASPHARMA". Owner himself died a few years ago. According to their official website, they have even antibiotics and located it Malta lol. The guy was living in Turkey, and never sold or produced one single antibio lol. Was very good shaped website, that was all. I knew him in person.

Balkan, officially, can be considered as "pharmacy brand". But in fact, I have to repeat, that's part is the point itself:
If any random country's health sector is "decent" and ministry of health of that country regulates pharmacies and whole health sector regularly, government/health department formally finalize the drugs that don't serve to the people.

Let's take it easy.
Tren-hex. Is there any legal human use for medical purposes in the planet earth? No. Breast cancer? Are you kidding me? Ok, so why do Balkan produce it? For making money. That is totally about corruption. Their stuff could be fulldose, probably they are, cause I, myself, me, never saw a bad lab test of Balkan before, and that's why I keep selling their stuff! (have their all injectable stuff)

In Turkey and probably in the States, too, there is no one single drug (currently available in pharmacies) that don't serve to the people anymore. Cause health deparments of these countries work perfectly. If there is no medical purposes anymore, Turkish Health Department and/or FDA delist it and/or don't produce/import it anymore.

 

[24hreup-rep]

Balkan is a legit pharmaceutical company. It's a tuff pill for most to swallow. They even promote it at the Moldova expo for medicines.

There's even a little girl holding a cold medicine product from them lol.

You can see their factory on Google maps as well.

Whether they are corrupted is a totally different story.

 

[bob357sig]

I believe some of the foreign pharma companies know full well that their is money to be made from the US bodybuilding market and that is why they make things like parabolan and Dianabol, when was the last time you heard of anybody being prescribed Dianabol? Even a company like Iran Hormone. They stick to legit meds- testE, Adrol. Anavar but why are the boxes printed in English on one side? I don’t think their are many Americans visiting Iran. I think they are fully aware that product is making its way to the underground steroid market but that’s where the money is.
By the way, I have used products from both IH and Balkan and have nothing but good things to say about them. Both top notch.

 

[DonaldPump123]

Nothing but great experiences with Balkan. If it wasn't so expensive and if it were more available domestic, it would be one of the only brands I would use

 

[Millard]

tren-hex. Is there any legal human use for medical purposes in the planet earth

Yes. The French pharmaceutical company Laboratories Negma produced Parabolan to be prescribed for recognized therapeutic purposes in humans from 1980 until its discontinuation in 1997.

 

[Nela]

Big fan of Balkan pharmaceutical!
Orals are great and oils have always been smooth just watch out for the countifits.

 

[Tmisatix]

I’d really love to use balkan exclusively for my upcoming run . It is very expensive, though :/. I’d rather save and pay the price though as I know I’m using quality.

 

[Weights]

Dude... go to the news forum and check the Alpha Pharma thread. They literally were set up in a shipping container. Yeah that's pharma boys.

Read that thread more carefully. That wasn’t alpha lab

 

[adnansanat]

Yes. The French pharmaceutical company Laboratories Negma produced Parabolan to be prescribed for recognized therapeutic purposes in humans from 1980 until its discontinuation in 1997.

I already wrote that in one of my previous posts in the topic. Currently, there is no medical purposes for parabolan.

 

[Steroidify Rep]

I already wrote that in one of my previous posts in the topic. Currently, there is no medical purposes for parabolan.

You just need one thing to have a pharmaceutical company, a valid license.

If in some country out there, a company gets a license to make shit in a bottle, that's a pharmaceutical product.

In some countries out there you just need to bribe an official to get a driver's license. Doesn't take more than 5 bucks. You can do it even if you never drove a car in your life.

Is it a good idea for you to drive? No... Will you be a good driver? No. Will it be safe to be around you when you're driving? No...

Is your driver's license legit? Yes...

 

[Den84]

There was an UGL shit called for "NASPHARMA". Owner himself died a few years ago. According to their official website, they have even antibiotics and located it Malta lol. The guy was living in Turkey, and never sold or produced one single antibio lol. Was very good shaped website, that was all. I knew him in person.

Stop to write bullshit! NAS pharma was one of the many Bulgarian shit brand! Never existed none nas pharma in Malta! Only Arl is based in Malta! Regarding Nas they produced only aas and all the line was bunk, as the most Bulgarian shit! Steroaas shared some lab test about nas , and all was bunk! you don't know the European market, stop writing idiocy!

 

[adnansanat]

Stop to write bullshit! NAS pharma was one of the many Bulgarian shit brand! Never existed none nas pharma in Malta! Only Arl is based in Malta! Regarding Nas they produced only aas and all the line was bunk, as the most Bulgarian shit! Steroaas shared some lab test about nas , and all was bunk! you don't know the European market, stop writing idiocy!

Are you dumb? Did you ever read and understand what I wrote?
Reread what I wrote. Nas was Turkey based. The guy was Turkish. Istanbul. According their website, they even sell antiobios and located in Malta, and that was funny shit cause I knew him in person.

C'mon boy, it's easy to understand. Even you can do it!

 

[randomguy87]

Read that thread more carefully. That wasn’t alpha lab

You're right, I didn't catch that at first.