Would take one heck of a conspiracy for pharma, which is required to variance test the hell out every single batch, maintain extensive, routinely inspected records from their in house and external government certified labs, to hide the fact they have anything resembling haphazard UGL production quality.
The idea that all the expense and effort put into multi million dollar manufacturing facilities, specialist engineers and chemists whose careers are dedicated to tablet manufacturing, along with endless layers of QA and government oversight results in a similar end product to someone with basic equipment, a pill press, and until very recently, rarely a test of any kind done on the end product is hard to believe. I know we all like to imagine "Big Pharma" are a bunch of blundering, greedy idiots and our UGL tablets are made in some artisanal fashion by Walter White types, but that's ridiculous. Whatever mistakes professional manufacturers are making are undoubtedly multiplied by UGL drug dealers.
If they aren't as careful and as closely regulated as I suggest, lawyers are missing many profitable, easy lawsuits from the low hanging fruit of unsuspecting patients routinely getting improperly made meds from billion dollar pharmacy chains, their suppliers, all the way back to the manufacturer's Western subsidiaries and their international conglomerates HQ'd in India that supply most of the pills used worldwide.
Jano is a fantastic resource. I'm sure the fact he struck out on his own as a successful entrepreneur is a strong indicator he's also excellent in his craft as a chemical analyst.
However, we tend to elevate people who know far more than us in one area, into experts on everything tangential to it. As far as I know, he's not a pharmaceutical manufacturing engineer, compliance expert, regulator, or scientist. He's an expert chemist who operates a very competent analysis lab, has probobly seen more UGL product than anyone but a senior DEA chemist, and only a tiny fraction of "pharma" product from his paying customers in comparison.
Speaking of selection bias, in the rare instance one pays to have "pharma" products analyzed, it's likely because of well founded doubts it's actually genuine pharma to begin with. Not many of us feel the need to send out samples of the drugs we get through legitimate sources.
