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FDA flexes muscle as raid sends message to supplement industry
FDA flexes muscle as raid sends message to supplement industry
Working with the same U.S. attorneys from the Northern District of California who helped him investigate the BALCO steroid scandal, Jeff Novitzky spearheaded the raid on Sandoval's home and the Max Muscle store.
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Are athletes taking fewer PEDs these days?
The Hardball Times — Buried in a somewhat yawn-inducing story about SuperFed Jeff Novitsky's quest to serve search warrants on every man, woman and child in the United States by 2016, is an interesting quote from the BALCO-riffic Victor Conte: ...

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baseballmusings.com — ShysterBall quotes Victor Conte on the current state of drug use, but I think Craig misses the point. Conte said: “I don’t believe competitive athletes are using designer steroids now. They’re too easily detected – they have too many red flags. As soon as you use them you send a signal to your body to stop producing its own testosterone and they can flag that. Now, they just use low-dose testosterone. The safest thing is to stay below the testing ratio.” Which elicited this response from Craig ...

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