This was a post on another forum. Just wanted some input on this quote:
"I'd just like to point out that if all of your compounds were cut phenol to any degree these tests would not pick that up.
GC/MS is great for showing the functional groups of a compound, but in reality we are dealing with huge organic compounds and if you look at the molecular structure they are all very similar and all have benzene constituents in them. This makes tests like MS/GC not very good for determining these compounds much less the purity of them.
Mass Spec has been sold to steroid users as the end all be all test to determine safety and purity of compounds but it just isn't.
A good alternative is NMR and IR spectra. These tests especially H1 NMR can tell you much more about organic compounds than mass spec ever will.
If a mass spec analyst tells you that they compare to known good standards of compounds they are lying to you. The compounds we work with in bodybuilding are so large that a standard of the fragmentation pattern is all but impossible to obtain. Further, if they tell you that they need more than an infinitesimal amount they are lying to you. Mass spec can be run with micromole amounts of substance.
Even further into this, mass spec analysis is a study in and of itself and analytical chemists spend their entire careers arguing between themselves on exactly how to interpret the results, and I find it highly improbable that any of these places that allow you to send in illegal substances have actual analytical chemists on staff. It's like reading a source telling you they have real doctors making their oils, no person with the title is going to jeopardise it testing substances that will send them to jail for having received from a random address.
It all sounds nice and good on the surface with them telling you they want to make the scene safer, harm reduction, all that shit, but they want money, and people are willing to give it to them hand over fist to feel better about what they have. They are businesses and business is good as long as we fall for this shit."
