{"id":1789,"date":"2009-05-13T04:31:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T02:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2015-02-13T08:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T13:35:53","slug":"fda-destroy-seized-lg-sciences-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/fda-destroy-seized-lg-sciences-products\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA To Destroy Seized LG Sciences Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

The article speaks for itself…<\/a><\/p>\n

FDA has received a consent decree from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, to destroy prohormone products worth $1.3 million. The decree included more than 23,300 bottles of three products distributed by LG Sciences LLC, of Brighton, Mich., marketed for use by body builders and distributed on the Web and at retail under the names \u201cMethyl 1-D,\u201d \u201cMethyl 1-D XL,\u201d and \u201cFormadrol Extreme XL.\u201d On behalf of FDA, U.S.Marshalls seized the products back in early April 2008, but the company was fighting the action, saying the products were DSHEA-compliant.<\/p>\n

FDA said lab tests showed the products, which were marketed as dietary supplements, contain one or more unapproved food additives and\/or new dietary ingredients (NDIs) and lacked scientific support for safe use. They found Methyl 1-D and Methyl 1-D XL contained 1,4,6-androstatriene-3,17-dione, also known as \u201cATD\u201d or 1,4,6-etioallocholan-dione; Formadrol Extreme XL contained ATD and 3,6,17-androstenetrione, also known as \u201c6-OXO\u201d\u2014the substance at the center of the legal battle between suspended Phillies pitcher J.C. Romero and several supplement makers and retailers.<\/p>\n

FDA stated both of these substances are steroids that inhibit the activity of the enzyme aromatase; they can be found in dietary supplements marketed as testosterone boosters.\u00a0 Also, 6-OXO was created by Patrick Arnold, the chemist behind many of the BALCO products involved in the Major League Baseball steroid scandal, which involved Barry Bonds and other key players.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looks like\u00a0it’s gonna be\u00a0curtains for both 6-OXO and ATD, which are in a fair number of bodybuilding supps – not just the ones discussed above.\u00a0 I\u00a0suspect LG Sciences was a test case…now the FDA now has a green light to make additional seizures.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, I suspect the move against 6-OXO and ATD means the\u00a0agency intends to be far more aggressive about steroid-based supps in general.\u00a0 This is something I definitely have mixed feelings about.\u00a0 On the one hand, I have little good to say about many of the\u00a0Superdrol\/Halodrol etc. clones\u00a0that have crept on the market in the wake of the prohormone ban…yes,\u00a0some of ’em\u00a0do work, but there is very little known about their long-term health and safety.\u00a0 And – philosophically-speaking – I don’t think supp companies have the right to use their customers as guinea pigs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the flip side, while there\u00a0may be some benefits\u00a0from a pure\u00a0health\/wellness standpoint, it’s NOT good from a societal one.\u00a0 In essence, the current attitude\u00a0about\u00a0bodybuilding supps\u00a0can be summed up as: “if it works well, it has to come off the market, since – even if it appears to be relatively safe (like – ironically –\u00a06-OXO and ATD)\u00a0– it’s still suspect”.\u00a0 After all, athletes will use it to cheat, and gawdferbid if the kiddies get their hands on it.\u00a0 The last argument is always the clincher…the\u00a0fact that kids can get their hands on all kinds of deadly OTC stuff (like Tylenol and Flintstone vitamins) never seems to register w\/these folks.\u00a0\u00a0And it goes without saying\u00a0that there isn’t enough law enforcement in the world to prevent drugs\/gray-area supps\u00a0from\u00a0appearing on the black market.\u00a0\u00a0My daughter knows kids who regularly smoke marijuana – to use an obvious example.\u00a0\u00a0The fact that\u00a0it’s illegal\u00a0isn’t a deterrent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It all amounts to a huge, expensive, complicated game of whack-a-mole.\u00a0 Guess we’ll see how the current\u00a0round plays out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The article speaks for itself… FDA has received a consent decree from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, to destroy prohormone products […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,27,28],"tags":[46,169,248,647,1012],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}