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skr0w
This is a pretty alarming email i received. Not all companies are like this but to think that just one is putting these harmful chemical is alarming.
e mail i recieved from meso-morph site: Poison In A Package
Tests found lead, tin, arsenic and a cancer-causing cattle fattener
mixed in
with steroids The Courant bought over the Internet.
November 6, 2005
By JOSH KOVNER, Courant Staff Writer Dangerous. That was the first
word out of
the scientist's mouth after seeing test results on three batches of
anabolic
steroids The Courant bought from black market websites in Poland, Spain
and
Moldova.
Reckless was another description. Poison, a third.
Tests by a team at Northeast Laboratories in Berlin, led by William
Ullmann,
showed a small amount of lead in one of the steroid samples, a liquid
injectable that users shoot into their muscle. Traces of a banned,
cancer-causing cattle fattener were found in a second sample. A third
steroid
proved to be nearly twice as concentrated as the amount on the label,
raising
overdose concerns. A fourth was labeled as one steroid, but was
another. A
fifth sample contained traces of a flammable liquid used in the
production of
plastics.
This is why federal agents, drug prosecutors and drug-industry
regulators say
they find Internet steroids terrifying.
"You would not want your loved ones anywhere near this stuff," Ullmann
said.
He's the owner and founder of Northeast Laboratories, which has tested
drugs,
food, air, water, molds and a multitude of other compounds for industry
and
government clients since 1976.
Ullmann is the former director of the laboratory division of the state
Department of Public Health, and is a scientist with 55 years of
experience.
His team at Northeast tested 13 samples using a gas chromatograph.
Specimens
were vaporized, then injected into a column of gas, their component
parts
recorded on computer printouts.
Ullmann said this was one of the toughest assignments he's handled, and
the
findings were alarming.
The team found small amounts of arsenic and tin in the sample of Deca
Durabolin,
one of the most popular bodybuilding steroids. Ingested over a period
of weeks,
as bodybuilders do when they're on a 10- or 12-week cycle, the tin can
cause
headaches, vertigo and problems in the nervous system, Ullmann said.
The
arsenic - trimethylsilyl arsenous acid - can cause cancer.
The team found small amounts of lead in the vial of liquid Equipoise,
an
injectable steroid. The lead can cause illnesses similar to tin
poisoning, only
more severe. Traces of benzyl chloride also showed up, a preservative
that can
produce pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs).
"Like the tin, lead is a cumulative poison. First it goes into the soft
tissue,
then it works its way into the bone, where it can be stored for years
and be
released by an illness or reaction to a medication. And here, you're
shooting
it right into your muscle," Ullmann said.
In the testosterone Enanthate, the team found traces of
diethylstilbestrol, once
used as a growth promoter in cattle. Diethylstilbestrol was banned by
the
federal government in the 1970s for animals used for foods, because it
was
found to cause cancer.
Diethylstilbestrol, also known as DES, was used as a synthetic estrogen
for
pregnant women from the 1950s to early 1970s, when it was linked to
vaginal
cancer.
"This was supposed to be the answer to farmers growing fatter
livestock,"
Ullmann said. "It may still be used as a growth promoter somewhere in
the
world."
Traces of flammable Furfural, used to make plastics, showed up in the
Bionabol
sample.
"I don't know how that would have gotten in there," Ullmann said. "It
is a
contaminant in this case. They could have been using dirty equipment,
or maybe
the equipment was used for something else beforehand. Lord knows."
Then came the tests on Winstrol, the trade name for stanozolol, the
powerful
steroid linked to slugger Rafael Palmeiro.
The label on the bottle, shipped from Madrid, said each pill was 50
milligrams.
Ullmann's team found they were 91 milligrams each, a concentration of
steroids
82 percent higher than the amount on the label.
"It's loaded and there's no instructions on how much to take," Ullmann
said.
"Seems to me, it's pretty doggone dangerous. If a kid takes one of
these, he
might think two is good, and three is even better. Then we're getting
serious,"
Ullmann said of the overdose threat.
Doctors, bodybuilders and former steroid abusers told The Courant that
inexperienced users tend to take more of the drug than less. They
self-medicate, then seek out advice from seasoned users in the online
chat
rooms of steroid.com and ************.-com.
All of the samples tested positive for steroids, but some had dosages
that were
significantly weaker than the labeled amount.
Ullmann said this suggested that either the chemicals in those samples
were old
and losing their potency, or that the steroid peddlers had diluted the
chemicals to stretch the product, as heroin, cocaine and marijuana
dealers are
known to do.
A second sample of Deca Durabolin proved to be mislabeled. It turned
out to be
another powerful steroid, testosterone propionate.
"It's like getting a mislabeled drug from a pharmacy. You don't know
what you're
taking," Ullmann said.
"This goes beyond concerns about the long-term health effects of
steroid abuse,"
Ullmann said of the overall test results.
"First, you have the labeling problem. If there's no instructions on
how many to take in a 24-hour period, it would not be hard to overdose.
The whole thing is reckless; it shows poor production. It appears in
some cases they weren't
careful about how they mixed the compounds.
"It's all very disturbing."
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