Check out an article in today’s Daily News where our own Rick Collins is quoted in a story on “Roid Rage” and Oscar Pistorius ….
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CMG Partner Quoted in Daily News
New Steroid Law Still En Route?
Some law-makers in Washington have been asking, how did “hidden steroids” get into bodybuilding supplements when the amended steroid law of 2004 was supposed to have solved the problem? Supplement industry critic Senator Arlen Specter [D-PA] chaired a Senate subcommittee hearing last September (http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=4081) to get some answers from DEA and FDA brass. The Senator appeared committed to solving the problem by reportedly working on a bill tentatively entitled the “Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2010.” READ MORE »
FDA Commissioner Hamburg’s Speech and the Potential Impact on the Supplement Industry
Recently Rick Collins and Alan Feldstein gave a speech at the ISSN conference in New Orleans on the effect the new Administration will have on our industry. They spoke about their belief that there will be greater regulatory scrutiny and more enforcement of dietary supplements, especially in the sports nutrition category.They emphasized the need to strictly comply with the law and to make sure that all dietary supplement products are substantiated, manufactured and marketed appropriately, and in fact actually fall within the definitional requirements for dietary supplement products as enunciated in DSHEA.
Those thoughts and opinions have now been echoed Margaret Hamburg, M.D., the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, during a recent speech at an industry sponsored conference.
New Report… CBS NEWS: “The ‘Legal’ Steroid Danger”
Sports nutrition supplements are back in the news and once again it’s not a positive story. Today CBS News ran a story entitled, “The ‘Legal’ Steroid Danger,” which featured several dietary supplement products that contain the substance 19-Norandrosta 4,9 diene- 3,17 dione (also known as Estra-4,9-dien-3,17-dione), which is purportedly a progestin similar to trenbolone, nandrolone and methyltrienolone.
