FDA warns of Body building products marketed as containing steroids

A Public Health Advisory (PHA) warning has been issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to consumers for stopping the use of body building products that are represented as containing steroids or steroid-like substances.
It is worthwhile to note that most of these products are marketed as dietary supplements.
From Infozine.com:

The agency also issued a Warning [...]

Amazon.com Has Anabolic Steroids For Sale

An inesvtigation by the Californian firm Anti-Doping Research has revealed that illegal drugs are readily available on Amazon.com.
The Washington Post was told by Anti-Doping Research chief executive officer Don Catlin, “To me, it’s absolutely an amazing story.”
From Nutraingredients-usa.com:

His firm bought about 10 products which testing confirmed contained illegal steroids that are known to have [...]

Concerns expressed by FDA over fictitious dietary supplements

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expressed worries about undeclared or deceptively labeled ingredients in products marketed as dietary supplements.
The FDA announced a new RSS feed to quickly issue a warning to consumers about tainted products marketed as dietary supplements.
From News-medical.net:

In recent years, FDA has alerted consumers to nearly 300 tainted products marketed [...]

Makers of dietary supplements warned

The Food and Drug Administration has said that some products marketed as dietary supplements include an “alarming variety” of active ingredients that are not listed on the labels and pose great dangers to consumers.
The FDA cited particular concern about weight loss, body building and sexual enhancement supplements in a letter sent to dietary supplement makers.
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Growing popularity of anabolic steroids and nandrolone

More and more sportsmen are falling into the trap of anabolic steroids and nandrolone to retain their place in teams and break records without coming in proximity to fatigue and failure.
The use of steroids is gaining popularity because they help professional sportsmen enhance training capacity and performance in as short as four to [...]

VMG Global sold steroids as dietary supplements

According to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in United States District Court in San Jose, California, a sports nutrition company in California, VMG Global, has pleaded guilty of selling dietary supplements spiked with anabolic steroids.
VMG Global pleaded guilty to charges of introducing unapproved drugs into intestate commerce with an intention to mislead [...]

Supplements containing steroids to be attacked by Hatch Bill

According to a new legislation unveiled recently by Senator Orrin Hatch, dietary supplements spiked with anabolic steroids will be examined by food inspectors will be working closely with agents of the drug enforcement.
The bill is supported by major dietary supplement industry associations and players’ associations for Major League Baseball and the [...]

Nutrition shelves stores to lose three drugs

Three steroids were previously marked as dietary supplements but sold on the shelves of nutrition stores were recently classified as controlled substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Madol and two other drugs, boldione and 19-nor-4,9(10)-Androstadienedione, were the drugs classified as steroids.
Travis Tygart, the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said his agency has discovered at [...]

NPA makes response to steroid classification action by DEA

The NPA (Natural Products Association) has issued a statement in response to the U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) classification of boldione, desoxymethyltestosterone, and 19-nor-4,9(10)-androstadienedione as “anabolic steroids“‘ under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). This statement was conveyed by John Gay, executive director and CEO of the NPA, the oldest and largest trade association [...]

Increased enforcement and resources keys for inhibiting steroid use

Strict enforcement measures and prosecution to the full extent of the law are the most effective ways to stop criminals from supplying steroids masquerading as dietary supplements, as per Daniel Fabricant, Ph.D., interim executive director and CEO of the Natural Products Association (NPA).
Fabricant appeared in a Senate hearing in September before the Subcommittee on Crime [...]