Drugs
Tainted Body Building Products
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FDA has identified an emerging trend where over-the-counter products, frequently represented as dietary supplements, contain hidden active ingredients that could be harmful. Consumers may unknowingly take products laced with varying quantities of approved prescription drug ingredients, controlled substances, and untested and unstudied pharmaceutically active ingredients. These deceptive products can harm you! Hidden ingredients are increasingly becoming a problem in products promoted for bodybuilding.
Remember, FDA cannot test all products on the market that contain potentially harmful hidden ingredients. Enforcement actions and consumer advisories for tainted products only cover a small fraction of the tainted over-the-counter products on the market. |
Public Notifications
Public Health Advisory: The FDA recommends that consumers should not use body building products marketed as containing steroids or steroid-like substances Body Building Products Marketed as Containing Steroids or Steroid-Like Substances Warning on Body Building Products (video) The FDA recommends that consumers should not use body building products marketed as containing steroids or steroid-like substances FDA's MedWatch Safety Alerts: November 2009 FDA Warns Consumers Against Dietary Supplement Containing Undeclared Drug
Enforcement
- Unlimited Nutrition Warning Letter
Body-building Products and Hidden Steroids: Enforcement Barriers Supplement Manufacturer Pleads Guilty to Selling Products Containing Anabolic Steroids - Americell-labs.com VMG Global Inc Warning Letter
Dietary Supplements Worth $1.3 Million Condemned and Forfeited to the United States Under Consent Decree Federal Agents Seize Nearly $1.3 Million of Illegal Dietary Supplements
Recalls
- Gaspari Nutrition Nutrition Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Novedex XT
- Fizogen Precision Technologies, Inc. Recalls OFF CYCLE II HARDCORE
- iForce Nutrition Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Reversitol
- Advanced Muscle Science Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of AROM-X Capsules, AROM-X UTT Liquid, AROM-XL Liquid, 4-AD Capsules and Decavol Capsules
G.E.T. Issues Vouluntary Recall of ArimaDex Kilosports Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of Clomed - Natural Wellness, Inc. Issues a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Masxtreme Capsules
MuscleMaster.com Conducts a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Certain Body Building Products - BODYBUILDING.COM Recalls 65 Dietary Supplements That May Contain Steroids
- Nutracoastal Trading LLC Recalls S-DROL Dietary supplement lot 810481