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johnnylucifer
Oh man guys don't ever assume this. I work for a pharmaceutical company. I have access to loads of unsealed/unused amps. If I wanted to, I could give you loads of unsealed amps. I could also manufacture amps filled with saline in my garage if I really wanted to. I value my job, so I would never do that, but getting unused amps, is easy. Filling and sealing unused amps is also easy if one were to apply themselves.
Also, since you use an open flame to seal an amp, this is almost a built-in sterilization process...not a good one, but our studies have shown that sealing the amp acts as a sterilizer. Not perfectly, but it absolutely does reduce the growth potential.
There are ways to test for potency of a drug product. USP would be a good source for the exact method if you have access. Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry is used at our company. I suspect that having equipment that could do this in your kitchen might be pricey. But if you had one and Potency came up "0" then you'd know it was BS product.
Some verbiage for you to google on at least...