Things just keep getting worse for bodybuilding.com. As if this weekend’s steroid raid on their office and distribution center wasn’t enough, now the supplement giant has to fend off a growing media buzz over its sale of illegal steroids to teens.
In a story titled Young Athletes Turn to Sometimes Harmful Strength Supplements, ABC News reported:
“It is a crime to sell illegal steroids, and anyone caught doing this ought to get the book thrown at them,” Daniel Fabricant of the Natural Products Association said in a statement. “We’re glad the Congress is looking into this, because anything we can do to separate the legal, safe and healthy dietary supplement industry from the seedy, fly-by-night, and unsafe world of illegal steroids is worthwhile.”
ABC News also targets bodybuilding.com in this video linked with the story.
One of the aspects of teens and steroids use not covered by ABC News is the readily available information available on bodybuilding.com regarding the homebrewing of steroids.
A recent Youtube video by Muscle Missions shows how easy it is to access steroid homebrewing information on bodybuilding.com: