when the department of justice described the website of all american peptide, it did not call the "intended for laboratory research use only, and not as drugs or food" notice a disclaimer. it called it "bogus," a research-chemicals label used "to conceal" what the company was really doing: selling drugs for people to inject.
a year earlier, prosecutors used almost the same word for a different peptide seller. in the case against the man behind precision peptides and dna peptides, doj called the "research use only" framing a "ruse to avoid fda scrutiny." he pleaded guilty to selling misbranded drugs with intent to defraud and forfeited just over $2.1 million.
notice what happened in both cases. the label the sellers printed to keep themselves safe became the single best piece of evidence against them. it did not read as caution. it read as knowledge. they knew the buyers were not running experiments, and they wrote a sentence built to look like they did not know. that sentence is now in the court record.