I still don't buy it. The difference in creating zero peptide lyophilized powder and the real thing is the cost of the raws, which is likely not more than 25% of the manufacturing/finishing costs. The FF would need to know the cap colors in advance or take the time to recap all of the vials that they had produced. It just seems like a lot of work to save a few bucks and risk burning your relationship with your customer. It would be easier and more sustainable to just have their own legitimate batches produced to sell. I think it is more likely that a raw producer provided bunk raws and GYC didn't test before or after manufacture.
We will probably never find out the true story or whether this was intentional or accidental.