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mazzgolf Posts: 74 Joined: 2002/05/28	2002/08/30, 09:39 AM Here's a scary thought - supp manufacturers secretly doping their products to make them seem to work better than their competitors... "Weightlifter Sues Supplement Maker" "Norwegian weightlifter Stian Grimseth has sued a U.S. food supplement maker, claiming its product caused a positive doping test that forced him to leave the 2000 Olympics. Grimseth, who competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games, was sent home from Sydney after the results of a test taken two weeks earlier showed traces of the banned steroid nandrolone. The weightlifter insisted he did not knowingly take any llegal drugs and said the only possible source of the steroid was a food supplement called Ribose that he started using just before the failed test. Grimseth said he'd cleared the product with Norwegian team doctors. Later tests of the product by an independent German doping laboratory detected two substances - nandrostenedion and norandrostenediol - that break down into nandrolone in the human body but were not listed on the contents. The substances were found in samples of the product that Grimseth had used, as well as in an unopened box of Ribose." Full story here: http://www.comcast.net/smedia/associatedpress_2002_08_28_-----_4222-1821-OLY-Weightlifte..html
rev8ball Posts: 3,081 Joined: 2001/12/27	2002/08/30, 12:00 PM i have heard rumors of this type of action before: supplement companies who allegedly add not just a prohormone, but prescription-only pharmecueticals (i.e. deca, clen, etc.) to their first batch of product in order to get huge results, and therefore sales, with first time users. and of course, there is no better advertisement than word of mouth. However, none of these have ever been confirmed; they remain only accusations. -------------- Michael "Trample the weak; hurdle the dead!"