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Will this become the new set of rules for supps? Banned substances are banned substances but the slippery slope will continue and this will get the ball rolling for vitamins as well.

I think the issue relates more to the unscrupulous supplement manufacturers who put dangerous chemicals into these supplements, which in turn raises scrutiny for the honest, less harmful supplement manufacturers. I have no problem with more closely monitoring supplement manufacturers, but on the flipside, consumers have to educate themselves as much as possible as to what is in the supplements that they are taking. If I were to go to a GNC (or any other supplement provider), I would thoroughly look into the ingredients, and ask as many questions as possible, in light of recent athelete deaths and steroid "busts". Maybe collegiate athletics programs need to provide classes or seminars to their athletes about supplement safety....

What you say is true but government can be way to overreaching with this stuff. I still have no clue why they banned andro and nor-andro and let DHEA remain legal, makes no sense. Pharmaceutical companies are pushing their political friends to ban certain vitamins so they can market it as a drug-namely B-6 and eliminate the competition. I think checking for sub-par ingredients and expiration dates is fine but like I said in the previous post its a slippery slope. Let's face it, they banned ephedrine and it had no where near the amount of fatalities than acetaminophen.

The issue is, in addition to politicians getting their palms greased, is that all you need is one or two high profile incidents to create a charged situation to spur opportunistic people into action. Case in point- with ephedrine, you had Korey Stringer of the Vikings die from heat stroke after taking ephedrine (gee, it wasn't that he was 350 pounds, with 20-30 pounds of gear on, in the 95+ degree weather for three hours that killed him???) followed shortly thereafter by a player with the Baltimore Orioles. Maybe if a big name or two died from acetaminophen, something would happen..

Right on! Where are the trainers at? In boxing your trainer throws in the towel when he see's the athlete getting pummeled. These people also had the "more is better" mentality. There was a time they were going after creatine then that witchhunt never picked up enough steam. The media also starts zeroing in on things they feel can cause a stir. The wrestler Chris Benoit murdering his family for instance. The first thing out of the reporters mouths were, "are steroids involved". Not one reporter asked if alcohol was involved and there is a long history of domestic violence and alcohol reported incidents. How many high schoolers die because of alcohol related accidents per year but nothing is done about it. Again they made Lye Alzado a poster boy against steroids even though his brain tumor wasn't adrogen dependent. Its an agenda they want to push whether it's right or wrong.

Can't agree with you more. We as a society are very reactionary. We are never proactive. We wait for something bad to happen, they cry foul when it does.