Illegal steroids passed as dietary supplements under the scanner
Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., interim executive director and CEO of the Natural Products Association (NPA) who appeared in a Senate hearing in September before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has recommended for stringent law enforcement measures to stop criminals from supplying steroids masquerading as dietary supplements.
It was remarked that enforcement and resources are keys for curbing steroids.
From Medicalnewstoday.com:
Committee member Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), underscored Fabricant’s comments in acknowledging that the FDA and other agencies are “overburdened” and suggested that Congress could increase resources to help with enforcement.
Fabricant also made the distinction between the “legal, safe and healthy dietary supplement industry” and the seedy, fly-by-night, and unsafe world of illegal steroids” and called on the FDA, DEA and other appropriate agencies to work together to enforce the law.
“We fully support the rules that already exist that ensure that what’s on the label is what’s in the bottle,” Fabricant said.
It is now believed that the government may respond soon by planning and formulating stringent measures considering the easy sale and access of people to anabolic steroids in the recent times.
Tags: anabolic steroids, dietary supplements, illegal steroids, Steroids
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