FDA Raids Bodybuilding.com
More evidence of an FDA crackdown on steroid-based supplements.
ShareThursday’s raid followed a two-year criminal investigation into the company and corporate officers, including founder Ryan DeLuca, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to search warrants filed in U.S. District Court.
The searches were conducted at Bodybuilding.com’s headquarters at 2026 S. Silverstone Way, Meridian, and its warehouse off Gowen Road in south Boise…
…Between February 2008 and last August, Robert Blenkinsop, an FDA special agent based in Boise, made four purchases from the company, he said in an affidavit filed in support of the search warrant.
Of the 31 products he bought, 23 tested positive for one or more of five anabolic steroids: madol, tren, superdrol, androstenedione and turinabol, he said in the affidavit.
Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much... on 04 Oct 2009 at 3:16 am #
[...] Superdrol and several other supps made by the more prominent companies were discontinued or reformulated after the warning letters went out, but then, nada… until the recent raids on American Cellular Laboratories and Bodybuilding.com. [...]