List of supplements containing steroids increasing
The increasing number of nutritional companies found to sell nutritional supplements containing steroids and designer steroids caught the attention of the US Congress.
Senator Arlen Specter, Democrat of Pennsylvania called for a hearing last Tuesday. The hearing, which was titled “Body Building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers”, was presented before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs.
Another nutritional company was found to sell these products containing steroids and steroid like substances. FBI agents raided the headquarters and warehouse of Bodybuilding.com in Boise, Idaho last Thursday.
As part of the investigation, the Food and Drug Administration purchased products sold by this company. Twenty-six out of thirty-one products positively tested to contain steroids. Among the steroids found were Tren, Madol, Superdrol, androstenedione, and Turinabol. It even includes a similar substance found in the raid on the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) in 2003.
Bodybuilding.com is owned by the same company that owns Atlanta Braves. In 2008, most of the controller stake was bought by Liberty Media for over $100 million.
In July, FDA issued a warning to the public regarding nutritional supplements secretly containing steroids and steroid like substances, after numerous reports were received by the agency about men who developed acute liver and kidney failure after using these dietary supplements.
From New York Times:
The nutrition company, BodyBuilding.com, is selling dietary supplements that contain steroids and designer steroids, including a substance found in the raid on the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative in 2003, the court papers said.
Tags: BALCO, Bodybuilding, nutritional company, Steroids
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