Supplement buyers and bodybuilding.com affiliates, beware! Your purchases are now in the hands of the FDA. And your prohormone and supplement records and purchases may become part of a Senate hearing as soon as next week.
If you’ve ever purchased from bodybuilding.com’s supplement store…welcome to the investigation!
On the heels of the biggest weekend in bodybuilding, Olympia Weekend, the FDA has slapped a search warrant against bodybuilding.com. On Thursday, September 24th, Federal agents raided bodybuilding.com’s warehouse and headquarters located in Boise, Idaho.
From the NY Daily News:
The federal government’s crackdown on the nutritional supplement industry continued Thursday as FDA agents executed a search warrant on one of the country’s most popular bodybuilding Web sites, Bodybuilding.com, which the government accuses of marketing and distributing illegal anabolic steroids.
The FDA’s action is part of a larger nationwide investigation into the selling and distribution of popular designer prohormone supplements such as “Tren” and “Superdrol”.
The affidavit claims that the Web site has been illegally selling five anabolic steroids with the names “Madol,” “Tren,” “Superdrol,” “Androstenedione,” and “Turinabol,” despite five “warning letters” from the FDA since 2002 informing the company that it was in violation of the law.
The FDA’s attack on bodybuilding.com comes exactly a week before a schedule Senate hearing on “the barriers preventing the enforcement of steroid control in the bodybuilding industry.”
(Above image is excerpt from 2006 FDA warning to bodybuilding.com)
As mentioned, Higher Power Inc, owners of bodybuilding.com and athletes.com, have been under scrutiny from the FDA for quite some time. Here is a letter from the FDA sent to Higher Power Inc from 2006. The letter warns the supplement giant about products in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. View the letter in graphic form.
Bodybuilding.com, known as the slum of all bodybuilding sites, has a history of bad behavior. Last year, the site’s forum moderators allowed a suicide to take place on the Misc message board without taking action.
There is no comment from Higher Power Inc. or bodybuilding.com regarding the steroid bust. Stay tuned for future developments as this story breaks, or when bodybuilding.com CEOs flee to Paraguay and take their website with them.
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