Steroid Warning: Dietary Supplements
Recent news articles have discussed the ongoing investigation into the use of performance enhancing steroids by major league baseball players. This investigation has led to the FDA's heightened awareness of the dangers associated with steroids and their widespread use. Steroid use extends beyond professional athletes and includes high school and recreational athletes as well as dieters.
"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned several manufacturers and distributors of unapproved drugs containing steroids that are marketed as dietary supplements and promoted for building muscle and increasing strength that the products may cause serious long-term adverse health consequences in men, women, and children. These products claim to be anabolic and problems associated with anabolic steroids include: liver toxicity, testicular atrophy and male infertility, masculinization of women, breast enlargement in males, and short stature in children. Anabolic steroids are also associated with causing adverse effects on blood lipid levels, and a potential to increase the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Consumers who have any of the following products should stop taking them and return them to their place of purchase:
Anabolic Xtreme Superdrol- manufactured for Anabolic Resources LLC, Gilbert, Arizona
Methyl-1-P, manufactured for Legal Gear, Brighton, MI
Read the complete MedWatch 2006 Safety summary, including links to the FDA Press release and Warning Letters to manufacturers and distributors of illegal steroid products sold as dietary supplements at:
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2006/safety06.htm#steroids"