| BODYBUILDING aficionados are faced with another | | | | Steroid what? |
| controversy which may soon transform into another | | | | Steroid and steroid use is a frequent headline grabber |
| blocking force in their agenda which is to get their | | | | in the major dailies. Careers of not a few world-class |
| discipline into the elite list of legitimate sports. | | | | athletes were cut short for steroid use. Most of those |
| In what appears to be an addition to what is already a | | | | who got themselves a free publicity for the use of |
| long list of their problems, the Bodybuilding sector is | | | | steroids were those who are considered as already |
| linked into the use of dietary supplement products | | | | popular. |
| reported earlier as containing steroids. | | | | Steroid is a regulated substance. It is described as |
| In fact, the United States Food and Drugs | | | | performance-enhancing drug that is widely being taken |
| Administration (FDA) recently made an announcement | | | | by athletes all over the world, despite a ban on its |
| recalling 65 dietary supplement products. Specifically | | | | use. Use of steroids is considered as cheating in |
| recalled are those that are being sold online by a | | | | many sports disciplines and sporting events. |
| bodybuilding website. | | | | Findings show that use of steroids and other medical |
| Who is liable? | | | | or dietary products containing steroids causes acute |
| Most of those that the US FDA is running after are | | | | liver ailments, male infertility and makes one vulnerable |
| marketed online by the Bodybuilding.com, a website | | | | to heart attack or stroke, which could result in death. |
| entirely and comprehensively devoted for bodybuilding | | | | Soon after the FDA announcement, the website |
| enthusiasts. According to the US government drug | | | | (Bodybuilding.com) officials have already made a |
| agency, those products sold online at the website | | | | statement, apparently caving in to the drug |
| might be containing steroids. | | | | agency’s request for a voluntary recall of sold |
| Specifically under close watch are those which were | | | | dietary products online and pull-out of the |
| manufactured by BrainQuicken LLC Research and | | | | advertisement and marketing. They however made it |
| Technologies or simply LLC. LLC is a subsidiary of | | | | clear that those dietary products that they are selling |
| Adaptagenix Applied Biosciences of Boise, Idaho. It is | | | | online are legally classified under the federal laws as |
| likewise considered as a top investment entity | | | | “dietary supplements”. |
| engaged in the development and distribution of | | | | The FDA has yet to make a final statement as to |
| bioactive and pharmaceutical-grade neural acceleration | | | | whether the recalled drugs indeed contain steroids. |
| products. | | | | Bodybuilding dragged into it |
| Should the drugs sold online be found positive of | | | | As a result of this development, Bodybuilding has been |
| steroid, the US FDA has yet to make any | | | | dragged into the controversy and bodybuilding |
| pronouncement on their next legal step. Moreover, | | | | aficionados are just not too happy about it. |
| there isn’t any word as to whose liability would it | | | | The controversy might just make it a lot harder for |
| be. It could be the liability of the website that plays the | | | | them to convince international sporting organizations |
| crucial role of selling it via the net. There is however a | | | | into agreeing to their request to consider the muscle |
| higher probability that LLC would face prosecution --- | | | | discipline as a legitimate sporting event. |
| or it could be both. | | | | |