Lol. Lot's of things aren't on the banned list, but at least people
USED to try and either stuff by claiming it was found in nature or loading it in a supplement with a bunch of proprietary ingredients where you couldn't tell what the main active ingredient was -- if they even put it on the label at all!
https://www.t-nation.com/supplements/dirty-tricks
I'd be the pot calling the kettle black if I didn't explain my position on this.
IFN sold prohormones back in the day. Prior to me being hired at IFN, the only prohormone offered was Bold200, which in theory was in fact a legal prohormone at the time(it wasn't banned, it had a DSHEA argument, and DASCA had not been enacted yet).
Due to me and another employee however, we moved onto producing superdrol, pheraplex, dymethazine, and protodrol. At the time, we honestly felt we were doing an acceptable thing due to the fact that the labels were clear/specific (as were the write ups), the compounds were not explicitly banned, and "everyone else is doing it!". After IFN got raided in 2009, I had the joy of meeting with our lawyers for the very first time, and I can say it was beyond a sobering experience. They showed us why our line of thinking was incorrect, how many rules/regulations we had actually broken, and just how serious the potential issue may be for us.
IFN got LUCKY however. Lucky in the sense that we were included in the 2009 raids, and didn't continue to produce those style of compounds afterwards. We got a proverbial "slap on the wrist" in that we paid a hefty fine, were placed on legal probation, and were subject to testing of every product & product run via the Banned Substance Control Group (
http://www.bscg.org/) who reported each of the results of our tests directly to the FDA (and we never had a single issue with any test thanks to the great manufacturing at Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals).
The difference now however is that it is 2016 and not 2009. 2009 SHOULD have shown supplement companies that if it isn't DSHEA compliant, it can't be sold. Now, if there is an argument for DSHEA compliance of a compound, I fully support it being fought for and sticking it to the government, however the issue right now is that NONE of the SARMs or anabolics (outside of dhea analogues) on the market right now have any argument for DSHEA except for 11-ketotestosterone as it is found naturally in the food supply and should fall under DSHEA compliance(unlike Trest or other various AAS still available today). Further, is is 2016 and NOT 2014. What I mean by this is that DASCA was put into law in 2014 which explicitly outlined that ANY hormonal compound was subject to a blanket ban/illegality unless it was an isomer/analogue/metabolite of estrogen, pregnenolone, cortico steroids, or DHEA. It doesn't matter if it's on the "list", it's already banned.
I have zero sympathy for these companies as the law is so clear cut, so obvious, so black & white, that anyone doing this stuff at this point is simply looking to make a quick buck (which I can appreciate...I'm all about the hustle, but not like this).
