How do contaminated supplements even come about?

[Straightcross]

Wish my Whey had growth hormone and testosterone in it, only time I had a tainted supplement I got food poisoning for a week

 

[Clippy]

They take supplements on purpose and then say it was accidentally in their pasta etc

 

[Straightcross]

They take supplements on purpose and then say it was accidentally in their pasta etc

Yeah, I forgot every chef has a stash of PEDs in case an athlete comes by just to troll them

 

[Clippy]

Yeah, I forgot every chef has a stash of PEDs in case an athlete comes by just to troll them

right

 

[dim_]

When you buy dodgy as shit, internet supplements, they are knocked up in cheap butt factories with no standards...

So they manufucture product with prohibited substances, dont bother cleaning the equipment, manufacture product without prohibited substances and they get cross contamination

OR

They make a cheap arse supplement out of really low cost bulk like Whey that on its own will do absolutely nothing and then they add a small amount of actual steroid or sarm (generally low cot) so that the supplement actually does something. and people go round saying "hey this supplement is great" when its in fact 99% cheap whey and milk powder, and 1% steroid.

 

[TFanatic]

They take supplements on purpose and then say it was accidentally in their pasta etc

This is possible and probable in many cases. But the supplement industry is unregulated and many manufacturers will put cheap hormones into their products to give it a boost. Tim Means showed up with a sealed supplement and it was tested and shown to have a banned substance in it. So he got a reduced sentence.

Also, not every banned substance is a PED. So make sure to educate yourself and wait for all the facts to come out before you flush someone's entire career down the drain.

 

[binny]

accidentally drop their steroids in their protein? and cant afford new one because reebok?

 

[OliverAtom]

Contaminated supplements used to happen in the 90s when supplement companies were trying to outdo each other. Some companies knowingly put steroids in their products. But now it has become a means of an excuse for athletes.

 

[Bitchka]

All prescription and non-prescription drugs are regulated in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But dietary supplements are treated more like special foods.
Mar 31, 2015

Which means they are not regulated. You can thank Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger for that. He has a financial stake in dietary supplements companies. He didn't get into politics for nothing.

 

[King of Fists]

You need that Dolce Whey Protein bro, it's basically all PED. Sure, it costs a bit more than normal Whey, but at the same time a Ferrari does cost more than a Kia.

 

[Exemplar]

The depleted ozone layer and CO2 irregularities are created spontaneous hormonal growth on dietary supplements. The dietary manufacturers have their best scientists on it... but they cannot stop these spontaneous events.

 

[Pacemaker Joe]

Supplement makers want a bigger piece of the pie, so rather than just using shit that doesn't work, they'll add in steroids or other shit. Some guy in a gym says it works way better, his friends buy it, and off you go. Add in that in the US the supplement industry is essentially unregulated and there's a lot you can get away with.

The other way is accidental contamination. People don't always clean the machine, and sometimes that means that a 70 year old taking a B-50 supplement suddenly gets a dose of anabolic steroids, with less that hilarious results.

http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-s...tamin_b_supplement_contains_anabolic_steroids

 

[Pacemaker Joe]

All prescription and non-prescription drugs are regulated in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But dietary supplements are treated more like special foods.
Mar 31, 2015

Which means they are not regulated. You can thank Arnold fucking Schwarzenegger for that. He has a financial stake in dietary supplements companies. He didn't get into politics for nothing.

It's more Orrin Hatch, but yea.

 

[When DC Cries]

I knew a former supply chain manager for Ralston Purina in St. Louis. He told me, one week they make dog food and the other they make cereal all on the same in equipment .

 

[Pacemaker Joe]

Contaminated supplements used to happen in the 90s when supplement companies were trying to outdo each other. Some companies knowingly put steroids in their products. But now it has become a means of an excuse for athletes.

http://www.supplement411.org/hrl/

There's a LONG list of supplements contaminated with everything from anabolics steroids, to SARMS, EPO, diuretics, stimulants, drugs currently in trials, and god knows what else.

 

[tasticles]

Yeah, I forgot every chef has a stash of PEDs in case an athlete comes by just to troll them

or someone broke into their house at tainted it just to sabotage their career like they did to yoel.

 

[ZuffaExecutive]

Basically most supplements u buy in a store have banned ingredients in them.whether there on the label or not.

 

[Pacemaker Joe]

or someone broke into their house at tainted it just to sabotage their career like they did to yoel.

That's an odd excuse to use as the only reason Yoel got 6 months is USADA bought another can and found it was contaminated as well. Same with Tim Means.

 

[tasticles]

That's an odd excuse to use as the only reason Yoel got 6 months is USADA bought another can and found it was contaminated as well. Same with Tim Means.

Thanks for the update on that. I was being facetious as hell because that's the kind of excuses people come up with but I'm happy to hear that was the case. I feel he got fucked getting a suspension for 6 months with that being the case. was he fined too?

 

[Nihilism]

Why would supplement companies be tainting their whey with substances that are worth more than the whey? Is it a charitable venture?